Trigger the native IOS datePicker?

Unfortunately this was a while ago, on a project I no longer have immediate access to. And it was made looking like the IOS 6 date picker where the wheel didn't have any "real" curve, so the text didn't need to skew at the top or bottom (it only had shadows from the outer frame).

Now with IOS 7, the dates that disappear at the visual edges sort of shrink and curve a bit, making it more tricky. I agree with Anton Azarov that Native Extention would probably be the easiest way if you want it to look "IOS 7"-ish.

However, if you don't really need the text distortion at the wheel edges, you could do as I and generate x number of dates, and adding them to three movieclips, making three columns. For instance the first column would consist of a textfield created this way:   

var days:Array = ["Sun","Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri","Sat"];

var months:Array = ["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"];

var date:Date;

var tf:TextField = new TextField();

tf.width = 200;

tf.height = 400;

myColumnMc.addChild(tf);

for(var i:int = 0; i<60; i++){

  date = new Date();

  date.setDate((date.date - 30) + i);

  tf.appendText(days[date.getDay()] + " " + months[date.getMonth()] + " " + date.getDate() + "\n");

}

This way I had dates before and after current date. Then I made them draggable with easing and velocity when released, using the ThrowPropsPlugin (this is a paid plugin, but you could of course write your own).