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Mallika Khullar
Mallika Khullar

Reputation: 1813

Android : DatePicker dropdown like Spinner

My designers would like to show a DatePicker which looks like a dropdown-list: enter image description here

Is it a good idea to use Spinner to implement the same? Would I have to write my own logic to take care of how many days fall in which months, leap years etc.?

Or is there any way to customise the Android DatePicker or any other widget to achieve this functionality wherein I don't have to take care of writing logic for handling the dates?

Is the practice recommended at all?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7006

Answers (3)

Harry Potter
Harry Potter

Reputation: 176

You can set style in Programmer.

 etDOB.setOnClickListener(v -> {
        DatePickerDialog dialog = new DatePickerDialog(this, android.R.style.Theme_Holo_Dialog, date, myCalendar
                .get(Calendar.YEAR), myCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH),
                myCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
        dialog.getWindow().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(android.graphics.Color.TRANSPARENT));
        dialog.show();
    });

Upvotes: 0

Zahid Rasheed
Zahid Rasheed

Reputation: 1554

Take a look at this library: https://github.com/code-troopers/android-betterpickers.

Gradle:

compile 'com.code-troopers.betterpickers:library:3.1.0'

In your Activity;

button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        DatePickerBuilder dpb = new DatePickerBuilder()
                .setFragmentManager(getSupportFragmentManager())
                .setStyleResId(R.style.BetterPickersDialogFragment)
                .setYearOptional(true);
        dpb.show();
    }
});

Otherwise: many more opensource libraries; https://android-arsenal.com/tag/27?sort=rating

Upvotes: 1

Rahul Kumar
Rahul Kumar

Reputation: 5229

If you want the spinner-style date picker, you can set the datePickerMode attribute of DatePicker to spinner. 

<DatePicker
...
android:datePickerMode="spinner" />

Upvotes: 1

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