Android Date Time picker are used a lot in android apps. In this tutorial we’ll demonstrate the use of a Date Picker and Timer Picker Dialog in our android application. These components are used to select date and time in a customised user interface. We will use DatePickerDialog and TimePickerDialog classes with Calendar class in our android application code to achieve this.
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Android DatePickerDialog and TimePickerDialog
Though a Date Picker and Time Picker can be used as independent widgets but they occupy more space on the screen. Hence using them inside a Dialog is a better choice. Fortunately android provides use with its own DatePickerDialog and TimePickerDialog classes.
DatePickerDialog and TimePickerDialog classes have onDateSetListener() and onTimeSetListener() callback methods respectively. These callback methods are invoked when the user is done with filling the date and time respectively.
The DatePickerDialog class consists of a 5 argument constructor with the parameters listed below.
- Context: It requires the application context
- CallBack Function:
onDateSet()is invoked when the user sets the date with the following parameters: - int year : It will be store the current selected year from the dialog
- int monthOfYear : It will be store the current selected month from the dialog
- int dayOfMonth : It will be store the current selected day from the dialog
- int mYear : It shows the the current year that’s visible when the dialog pops up
- int mMonth : It shows the the current month that’s visible when the dialog pops up
- int mDay : It shows the the current day that’s visible when the dialog pops up
The TimePickerDialog class consists of a 5 argument constructor with the parameters listed below.
- Context: It requires the application context
- CallBack Function:
onTimeSet()is invoked when the user sets the time with the following parameters: - int hourOfDay : It will be store the current selected hour of the day from the dialog
- int minute : It will be store the current selected minute from the dialog
- int mHours : It shows the the current Hour that’s visible when the dialog pops up
- int mMinute : It shows the the current minute that’s visible when the dialog pops up
- boolean false : If its set to false it will show the time in 24 hour format else not
Android Date Time Picker Example Project Structure
Android Date Time Picker Dialog Project Code
The activity_main.xml consists of two buttons to invoke the Date and Time Picker Dialogs and set the user selected time in the two EditText views. The xml code is given below.
activity_main.xml
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="https://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="https://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" tools:context=".MainActivity">
<EditText
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/in_date"
android:layout_marginTop="82dp"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true" />
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="SELECT DATE"
android:id="@+id/btn_date"
android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/in_date"
android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/in_date"
android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/in_date" />
<EditText
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/in_time"
android:layout_below="@+id/in_date"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true" />
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="SELECT TIME"
android:id="@+id/btn_time"
android:layout_below="@+id/btn_date"
android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/btn_date"
android:layout_alignStart="@+id/btn_date" />
</RelativeLayout>
The MainActivity.java class is given below:
package com.journaldev.datetimepickerdialog;
import android.app.DatePickerDialog;
import android.app.TimePickerDialog;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.DatePicker;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TimePicker;
import java.util.Calendar;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements
View.OnClickListener {
Button btnDatePicker, btnTimePicker;
EditText txtDate, txtTime;
private int mYear, mMonth, mDay, mHour, mMinute;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
btnDatePicker=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btn_date);
btnTimePicker=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btn_time);
txtDate=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.in_date);
txtTime=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.in_time);
btnDatePicker.setOnClickListener(this);
btnTimePicker.setOnClickListener(this);
}
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
if (v == btnDatePicker) {
// Get Current Date
final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
mYear = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
mMonth = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
mDay = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
DatePickerDialog datePickerDialog = new DatePickerDialog(this,
new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {
@Override
public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year,
int monthOfYear, int dayOfMonth) {
txtDate.setText(dayOfMonth + "-" + (monthOfYear + 1) + "-" + year);
}
}, mYear, mMonth, mDay);
datePickerDialog.show();
}
if (v == btnTimePicker) {
// Get Current Time
final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
mHour = c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
mMinute = c.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
// Launch Time Picker Dialog
TimePickerDialog timePickerDialog = new TimePickerDialog(this,
new TimePickerDialog.OnTimeSetListener() {
@Override
public void onTimeSet(TimePicker view, int hourOfDay,
int minute) {
txtTime.setText(hourOfDay + ":" + minute);
}
}, mHour, mMinute, false);
timePickerDialog.show();
}
}
}
In the above code we’ve created a Calendar object using Calendar.getInstance() to display the current date and time using the respective static fields.
Note: The display calendar and clock are the default UI themes as provided in the AppCompat Theme.
Below is the output produced by our android date time picker example application.
This brings an end to android date time picker dialog example tutorial. You can download the final Android DateTimePickerDialog Project from the below link.
Bro iam extends fragment instead of activty so m getting error near context please help out.
Thank You
simply use “getContext()”
Very nice and helpful. Thanks
REALLY GOOD TUTORIAL !!!
Can Only Month And Year ?
Awesome Work!
I spend a sweet ton of time trying to implement something like this. Thank you for sharing!
it’s not printing the AM ,PM after the time could you clarify me
please help me with datepicker i wanted to add two edittext with date picker as check in date and check out date
how to enable only next 7 days date
By this way you can solve your problem.
set minimum current date like this
mPickerDialog.getDatePicker().setMinDate(System.currentTimeMillis());
After that convert 7 days into Milliseconds like 7 Days =604800000 Milliseconds
mPickerDialog.getDatePicker().setMaxDate(System.currentTimeMillis() +604800000);
It will enable only 7 days from current date
DatePickerDialog datePickerDialog = new DatePickerDialog(this,
new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {
@Override
public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year,
int monthOfYear, int dayOfMonth) {
txtDate.setText(dayOfMonth + “-” + (monthOfYear + 1) + “-” + year);
}
}, mYear, mMonth, mDay);
^^^ I don’t understand why in the onDateSet method, year, monthOfYear and dayOfMonth are integers but they can pass into setText method which shoud pass value as String type ?
The code in setText() is concatenation of string and int values.
txtDate.setText(dayOfMonth + “-” + (monthOfYear + 1) + “-” + year);
——— value of int dayOfMonth + “-” + value of the addition(value of int monthOfYear + 1) + “-” + value of year ———
so if the date picked is 8th of April 2019 the resulting string will be
“8-4-2019”
Thankyou
I easily understad
Awesome Work Man. Thanks for such great tutorials.
Finally i find this!!!
Thanks a lot
very very easily expalined .I read so many articles for this like android developers documentation but this is very very easy
Glad this helped you Sarath.
Very Helpful. Thank you
this is badly designed. the year needs to be set in a different field from the month or you have to tap on the screen for 10-15 minutes to go back to the average DOB.
You can directly click on the year and choose your required year . simple as that.
Great Help Anupam 🙂
Thanx It Helped me
is there is a way to open datepicker dialog as a yearlist view first then month then day
Awesome !
Very helpfull
i want to know how to use start date to end date date picker in android fragment and condition is that end date date picker should be greater than start date datepicker can anybody help me
TimePickerDailog.show();
DatePickerDailog.show();
Both are showing error …??
I want to set the am and pm in the Timepicker field. can you please let me know how to set it.
Change your OnClickListener like below 😉
btnTimePicker.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
// Get Current Time
final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
mHour = c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
mMinute = c.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
// Launch Time Picker Dialog
TimePickerDialog timePickerDialog = new TimePickerDialog(Main.this,new TimePickerDialog.OnTimeSetListener() {
@Override
public void onTimeSet(TimePicker view, int hourOfDay,int minute) {
private String format = “”;
if (hourOfDay == 0) {
hourOfDay += 12;
format = “AM”;
} else if (hourOfDay == 12) {
format = “PM”;
} else if (hourOfDay > 12) {
hourOfDay -= 12;
format = “PM”;
} else {
format = “AM”;
}
txtTime.setText(hourOfDay + “:” + minute + format);
}
}, mHour, mMinute, false);
timePickerDialog.show();
}
});
thanks so much realy 2 nice work.
Thanks, Rajender.
datePickerDialog.show(); showing error..please help
Hey, Thank You! Its really helpful. saved my time.
hi i got error at c.get() method as “Call requires API level 24 (current min is 15)”
Just clean ur project or rebuild
Hi, I have created a date picker dialog and passed a custom year,date,day (ex, I have passed Feb, 2nd, 2016) .It shows me Feb 2nd is highlighted in all years. How can I avoid that and show Feb 2nd selected only in 2016.
To allow only the days to come to be clickable and making previous days unclickable..!!how to do that in this?
Hi,
To display previous dates, add this line of code:
datePickerDialog.getDatePicker().setMinDate(System.currentTimeMillis() – 1000);
Thanks
How to display the time in 24 hours? Currently it is showing 12 hours format and i want 24 hours format..
Hi,
Change the last parameter is24hourView from false to true as shown below.
TimePickerDialog timePickerDialog = new TimePickerDialog(this,
new TimePickerDialog.OnTimeSetListener() {
@Override
public void onTimeSet(TimePicker view, int hourOfDay,
int minute) {
txtTime.setText(hourOfDay + “:” + minute);
}
}, mHour, mMinute, true);
Thanks
how to convert month from int to name? (eg. 1 -> january, 2 -> february), any idea from adding if else ?, great tutorial btw, works perfectly on me
Hi dan,
Use enums.
Thanks
Thanks for so easy and very useful tutorial!
how to disable past date and time ??
datePickerDialog.getDatePicker().setMinDate(System.currentTimeMillis() – 1000);
Thank you very much!! Easier than the all examples i found.
Thanks for this.
Works perfect
timePickerDialog.show(); showing error..please help
Hi,
I have copied these codes in my android project. the layout is correctly displayed but when I copy the java file It dosen’t work
Hi Anupam: Good Tutorial, I have the following question, I have an application where I want me to be the administrator of the calendar in which users enter and to request an appointment, but only I can accept and you get a message to users if it was or not accepted the appointment. I appreciate all your help and support.
A much simpler soultion than Googles examples with FragmentDialogs. Thanks!
F*****g thank you! been googling for 3 hours and every other tutorial was either deprecated or vague and complex. this one i did it 5 mins and it worked perfectly.