how to dismiss a UIPickerView in ios - iphone

Question

In my app, i have pickerviews in my add contact page. I have given the following 'touchesBegan' method. But it dismisses the picker even when i click on a value to set. For example, if i click 'homephone' from preferred phone picker, the picker gets dismissed instead of setting the value. i need the picker to be dismissed only if i click outside the picker. Can anyone help me in fixing this.
-(void) touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
[self.AddView endEditing:YES];
}

Answer 1

You can use
-(void) touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
UITouch *touch = [touches anyObject];
if ([touch view] != pickerview)
[self.AddView endEditing:YES];
}
this will be used to endedit when the touch is outside the picker view

Answer 2

try this code:
UITapGestureRecognizer *single_tap_recognizer;
single_tap_recognizer = [[[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]
initWithTarget : self.view
action : #selector(upper_button_view_tapped)]
autorelease];
[single_tap_recognizer setNumberOfTouchesRequired : 1];
[self.view addGestureRecognizer : single_tap_recognizer];
-(void)upper_button_view_tapped
{
[self .view endEditing:YES];
}
Hope it help You

Answer 3

In your code:
-(void) touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}
Or You can put a bigger button under the PickerView, make it color clear custom and dimension full screen, then use the dismiss inside a (IBAction) and when you tap outside the picker your view is dismissed
- (IBAction)buttonClear:(id)sender {
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}