Date Picker

Android Date Picker allows you to select the date consisting of day, month and year
in your custom user interface. For this functionality android provides DatePicker and
DatePickerDialog components.
In this tutorial, we are going to demonstrate the use of Date Picker through
DatePickerDialog. DatePickerDialog is a simple dialog containing DatePicker.
In order to show DatePickerDialog , you have to pass the DatePickerDialog id
to showDialog(id_of_dialog) method. Its syntax is given below −
showDialog(999);

On calling this showDialog method, another method called onCreateDialog gets

automatically called. So we have to override that method too. Its syntax is given
below −
@Override
protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if (id == 999) {
return new DatePickerDialog(this, myDateListener, year,
month, day);
}
return null;
}

In the last step, you have to register the DatePickerDialog listener and override its
onDateSet method. This onDateSet method contains the updated day, month and
year. Its syntax is given below −
private DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener myDateListener = new
DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {
@Override
public void onDateSet(DatePicker arg0, int arg1, int arg2, int
arg3) {
// arg1 = year
// arg2 = month
// arg3 = day
}
};
Apart form date attributes, DatePicker object is also passed into this function. You
can use the following methods of the DatePicker to perform further operation.

Sr.No Method & description

1 getDayOfMonth()
This method gets the selected day of month

2 getMonth()
This method gets the selected month

3 getYear()
This method gets the selected year

4 setMaxDate(long maxDate)
This method sets the maximal date supported by this DatePicker in milliseconds since
January 1, 1970 00:00:00 in getDefault() time zone

5 setMinDate(long minDate)
This method sets the minimal date supported by this NumberPicker in milliseconds since
 January 1, 1970 00:00:00 in getDefault() time zone

6 setSpinnersShown(boolean shown)
This method sets whether the spinners are shown

7 updateDate(int year, int month, int dayOfMonth)

This method updates the current date

8 getCalendarView()
This method returns calendar view

9 getFirstDayOfWeek()
This Method returns first day of the week

Example
Here is an example demonstrating the use of DatePickerDialog class. It creates a
basic Date Picker application that allows you to set the Date using DatePicker
Widget
To experiment with this example , you can run this on an actual device or in an
emulator.

Step Description
s

1 You will use Android studio to create an Android application and name it as DatePicker
under a package com.example.datepicker.

2 Modify src/MainActivity.java file to add necessary code.

3 Modify the res/layout/activity_main to add respective XML components.

4 Modify the res/values/string.xml to add necessary string components.

5 Run the application and choose a running android device and install the application on it
 and verify the results.

Following is the content of the modified main activity

file src/com.example.datepicker/MainActivity.java.
package com.example.datepicker;

import java.util.Calendar;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.DatePickerDialog;
import android.app.Dialog;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;

import android.widget.DatePicker;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private DatePicker datePicker;
private Calendar calendar;
private TextView dateView;
private int year, month, day;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

dateView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView3);

calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
year = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);

month = calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH);
day = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
showDate(year, month+1, day);
}

@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
public void setDate(View view) {
showDialog(999);
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "ca",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
.show();
}

@Override
 protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if (id == 999) {
return new DatePickerDialog(this,
myDateListener, year, month, day);
}
return null;
}

private DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener myDateListener =

new
DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {
@Override
public void onDateSet(DatePicker arg0,
int arg1, int arg2, int arg3) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
// arg1 = year
// arg2 = month
// arg3 = day
showDate(arg1, arg2+1, arg3);
}
};

private void showDate(int year, int month, int day) {

dateView.setText(new
StringBuilder().append(day).append("/")
.append(month).append("/").append(year));
}
}

Following is the modified content of the xml res/layout/activity_main.xml.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >

<Button
android:id="@+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="70dp"
android:onClick="setDate"
android:text="@string/date_button_set" />
 <TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="24dp"
android:text="@string/date_label_set"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
/>

<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/button1"
android:layout_marginTop="66dp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/button1"
android:text="@string/date_view_set"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
/>

<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView3"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignRight="@+id/button1"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView2"
android:layout_marginTop="72dp"
android:text="@string/date_selected"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
/>

</RelativeLayout>

Following is the content of the res/values/string.xml.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="app_name">DatePicker</string>
<string name="action_settings">Settings</string>
<string name="hello_world">Hello world!</string>
<string name="date_label_set">Press the button to set the
date</string>
<string name="date_button_set">Set Date</string>
<string name="date_view_set">The Date is: </string>
<string name="date_selected"></string>
</resources>

Let's try to run our DatePicker application we just modified. I assume you had
created your AVD while doing environment set-up. To run the app from Eclipse,
open one of your project's activity files and click Run   icon from the tool bar.
Eclipse installs the app on your AVD and starts it and if everything is fine with your
set-up and application, it will display following Emulator window −

Now you can see that the date has already been set at the bottom label. Now we
will change the date through DatePickerDialog by pressing the Set Date button. On
pressing the button following screen would appear.
Now set the required date, and after setting the date, press the Done button. This
dialog will disappear and your newly setted date will start showing at the screen.
This is shown below.