Android DatePicker Example

Android DatePicker is a widget to select date. It allows you to select date by day, month and year. Like DatePicker, android also provides TimePicker to select time.

The android.widget.DatePicker is the subclass of FrameLayout class.

Android DatePicker Example

Let's see the simple example of datepicker widget in android.

activity_main.xml

File: activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="example.javatpoint.com.datepicker.MainActivity">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_above="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_marginBottom="102dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="30dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="30dp"
        android:text="" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
        android:text="Change Date" />

    <DatePicker
        android:id="@+id/datePicker"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_above="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginBottom="36dp" />

</RelativeLayout>

Activity class

File: MainActivity.java

package example.javatpoint.com.datepicker;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.DatePicker;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    DatePicker picker;
    Button displayDate;
    TextView textview1;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        textview1=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
        picker=(DatePicker)findViewById(R.id.datePicker);
        displayDate=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);

        textview1.setText("Current Date: "+getCurrentDate());

        displayDate.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {

                textview1.setText("Change Date: "+getCurrentDate());
            }

        });

    }
    public String getCurrentDate(){
        StringBuilder builder=new StringBuilder();;
        builder.append((picker.getMonth() + 1)+"/");//month is 0 based
        builder.append(picker.getDayOfMonth()+"/");
        builder.append(picker.getYear());
        return builder.toString();
    }
}

Output:

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