Show custom dialog when spinner is being clicked

Question

Currently, I have the spinner in dialog mode.

Answer 1

Do not use Spinner, but using TextView, and install a click listener to it.

In order to turn TextView looks like Spinner, here is the technique

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/date"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="0.72"
            android:text="Aug 20, 2012"
            style="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.Spinner" />

or

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/date"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="0.72"
            android:text="Aug 20, 2012"
            style="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Spinner" />

Answer 2

I think you are going to have trouble making that work with a Spinner. The concept of a Spinner is such that it is expecting to show a list of items for the user to choose from.

Instead of a Spinner I think you should use a Button that pops up a custom dialog containing a the DatePicker. You could even wire it up correctly to show the selected date as the Text on the Button if you wanted to.