Use pickers when you want controlled input

In our case, the picker is the perfect element for our app. No typing at all, but it allows Mike to have control over what gets selected. There’s some terminology that you need to know about pickers before we get our data in there.

The picker is different.

The picker doesn’t want to be told what to do, it’s going to ask when it wants your input. You’re going to see this pattern show up with controls that could use a lot of data like pickers, and later we’ll see something similar with table views. Let’s take a closer look...