I'm currently making a registration form, and one of the fields is for the users Date of Birth. I want to use datepicker, however I don't want the calendar layout as shown below:
I want the layout to look something like this so that way its easier to choose the year and month without having to scroll through everything:
However I do not know how to go about this, or what to put inside the styles.xml file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Add this to style.xml
<style name="date_picker_theme" parent="@android:style/Widget.DatePicker">
And then you should apply style for your date picker like this:
<DatePicker
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/datePicker"
style="@style/date_picker_theme" />
Create style with
<style name="DatePicker" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:datePickerStyle">@android:style/Widget.DatePicker</item>
</style>
Then in custom fragment dialog xml
<DatePicker
android:theme="@style/DatePicker"
android:id="@+id/fragment_date_picker_control"
android:datePickerMode="spinner"
android:spinnersShown="true"
android:calendarViewShown="false"
android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/margin_normal"
android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/margin_normal"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
Link : http://yogeshkalwar.blogspot.in/2017/08/custom-spinner-datepicker-supporting-n70.html
To set the DatePicker style globally, add the following to style.xml
, or adjust existing content:
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="android:datePickerStyle">@style/MyDatePicker</item>
</style>
...
</resources>
And define your customized DatePicker style, either in style.xml
or a separate file, e.g.:
<resources>
<style name="MyDatePicker" parent="@android:style/Widget.DatePicker">
<item name="android:calendarViewShown">false</item>
<item name="android:datePickerMode">spinner</item>
</style>
</resources>
Above properties are of XML, if you want to set it programmatically you can you the below code but I haven't checked this code whether its working or not.
datepickerDialog_object.getDatePicker().setSpinnersShown(true);
datepickerDialog_object.getDatePicker().setCalendarViewShown(false);
DatePickerDialog has a convenience method, where you set the desired layout.
public DatePickerDialog(@NonNull Context context, @StyleRes int themeResId,
@Nullable OnDateSetListener listener, int year, int monthOfYear, int dayOfMonth) {
this(context, themeResId, listener, null, year, monthOfYear, dayOfMonth);
}
public static final int MODE_SPINNER = 1;
public static final int MODE_CALENDAR = 2;
Passing 1 or 2 in themesResId does the trick.