How To Create a Rotating Wheel Control with UIKit

This is a post whew you will learn how to build custom Rotating Wheel Control with UIKit, written by iOS Tutorial Team member Cesare Rocchi, a UX designer and developer specializing in web and mobile applications. There may be times you’ve downloaded a cool application with a new kind of user interface component, and you’ve […] By Cesare Rocchi.

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Where to Go From Here?

An example project with all of the code from the above tutorial can be downloaded from my Github page.

It was a nice trip around the wheel, eh? You’ve built a whole new component from scratch, creating a natural-feeling and fun way for users to select an item.

You can complete this component by adding a selector to the central button that shows a different view according to the sector selected. As an additional exercise, if you like to dig into trigonometry – and who doesn’t :] – try moving the zero point to the top or the right.

I hope you had a rewarding experience with this tutorial and look forward to responding to your questions and comments in the forum!

This is a post by iOS Tutorial Team member Cesare Rocchi, a UX designer and developer specializing in web and mobile applications. You can also find me on

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