Android: How to get the time from a TimePicker when it is typed in

Question

I\'ve got a DialogPreference which implements a simple TimePicker.OnTimeChangedListener (see below). Setting the time by clicking the +/- buttons works great. But I don\'t k

Answer 1

Only a very bad workaround so far...

ViewGroup v = (ViewGroup) timePicker.getChildAt(0);
ViewGroup numberPicker1 = (ViewGroup) v.getChildAt(0);
ViewGroup numberPicker2 = (ViewGroup) v.getChildAt(1);
String hours = ((EditText) numberPicker1.getChildAt(1)).getText().toString();
String mins = ((EditText) numberPicker2.getChildAt(1)).getText().toString();

selectedTime = hours+":"+mins;

Answer 2

I hadn't noticed this problem until i stumbled upon this question. There is a simple solution: When the user is done changing the date and time in my app, i simply call finish() and in the onPause() or onStop() or onDestroy() I do this:

// force the timepicker to loose focus and the typed value is available !
timePicker.clearFocus();
// re-read the values, in my case i put them in a Time object.
time.hour   = timePicker.getCurrentHour();
time.minute = timePicker.getCurrentMinute();

After this i store the time.toMillis(false) value in the appropriate column of my table.

I don't know if the timepicker is still accessible in your onDialogClosed(boolean positiveResult). If not, find another callback to use when it still is.

Hope this helps.