Create UIPickerView programmatically

The UIPickerView is one of the input controls in iOS for displaying and selecting a list of data. Most tutorials implement this control in Interface Builder, which is fine, but I like to have more control and do most everything in code. There are several components to doing this 100% programmatically, which I will demonstrate below...

The first thing we have to do is include the UIPickerViewDelegate in the interface of our class .h file.

@interface myViewController : UIViewController<UIPickerViewDelegate>

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