Native Mobile Date Picker?

I’m building an app that uses a calendar. The main function is to create bookings and it will get a lot of mobile use as well as desktop. I have it working with the native date picker which is ok, but I’d really like it to show the phones native date selector when used on mobile.
I’ve played around with a html input field but cannot for the life of me get the data from that to convert into a date within the workflow.

Am I stuck using the bubble date picker (which seems a huge limitation of the platform), or is there any way to realistically make use of the phones date picker?
Thanks.