How to Change the Datepicker style for Android

Question

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.

Answer 1

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);

Answer 2

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" />

Answer 3

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>

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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