Android Calendar View for Date Picker

Question

I\'m writing my first app, and I have a question about DatePicker.

My app requires the user to input a date. The most user-friendly way would be to popu

Answer 1

Try to use this component: https://github.com/truefedex/android-date-picker

If you want to use it like popup write on your onclick:

if (calendarPopup == null) {
  calendarPopup = new PopupWindow(getContext());
  CalendarPickerView calendarView = new CalendarPickerView(getContext());
  CalendarNumbersView calendar = (CalendarNumbersView) calendarView.findViewById(com.phlox.datepick.R.id.calendar);
  calendar.setShowDayNames(false);
  calendarView.setListener(onDateSelectionListener);
  calendarPopup.setContentView(calendarView);
  calendarPopup.setWindowLayoutMode(
        MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(llCalendar.getWidth(), MeasureSpec.EXACTLY),
        ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
  calendarPopup.setHeight(1);
  calendarPopup.setWidth(llCalendar.getWidth());
  calendarPopup.setOutsideTouchable(true);
}
calendarPopup.showAsDropDown(llCalendar);

Answer 2

Now, in 2014, even the native DatePicker (link) contains small Holo looking CalendarView (link) to pick a day in month.

You can choose, if both spinners and CalendarView or just one of them is displayed by setting:

• android:calendarViewShown
• android:spinnersShown

I'm not sure if it's just API level 16+ or if it was even in Ice Cream Sandwich, but it's there. This is how it looks by default:

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Moreover, on API level 21 and higher there is a new Material themed DatePicker that looks like following:

This is default on API 21+ and there are no spinners anymore, but you can switch back to the Holo one by setting

android:datePickerMode="spinner"

in your XML.