title: Customize text color of UIDatePicker for iOS7 (just like Mailbox does)
body: <p>I'm having the most frustrating dilemma. I've researched up and down and can clearly see that Apple does not want us tampering with iOS 7. Well, I want to tamper. And, the team at Mailbox clearly figured out how to do it and get approved.</p>
  
  <p>The main thing that I'm trying to achieve is to change the label color to white.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wZhns.png" alt="Mailbox UIDatePicker"></p>
  
  <p>My first thought was they are using a custom UIPickerView that just mimics a UIDatePicker, but I just don't think this is the case.</p>
  
  <p>I zoomed in on a small fragment and discovered remnants of a normal UIDatePicker (black lines) along with clipping on the letter "W".</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2jciH.png" alt="Mailbox UIDatePicker fragments"></p>
  
  <p>Now I've scoured high and low. Did some runtime hacking, messed with UIAppearance, and even dug into some private APIs just to see if this is possible. </p>
  
  <p>I got close, very close, but it used a private API, and if you scrolled fast enough the labels would turn black again.</p>
  
  <p>I'm completely at a loss on how to do this without a) breaking the rules or b) spending countless hours reimplementing UIDatePicker.</p>
  
  <p>Mailbox, tell me your secrets! And if anyone else has any suggestions (and I mean any), please let me know.</p>
  
  <p>Also, this is the closest I've gotten:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tLOWw.png" alt="So close yet so far"></p>