Introduction to Android Date Picker Dialog with Example

Introduction:

Android Date Picker helps you to select the date with day, month and year in your Layout/User Interface. Android provides you two classes DatePicker and DatePickerDialog to implement the functionality. You can set the date like below:

Let’s look into the example on how to implement it.

In this example, you will see how to set a date. When you click on ImageButton it should open a dialog box with today’s date and while clicking on “Set” it will set the value in EditText.

activity_main.xml

Add ImageButton in your xml file.

MainActivity.java

Add below code in onCreate(){..}

Create onClick(){..} and add one line code :

Output : 

Download Project Link :

https://github.com/hiteshbpatel/Android_Projects/tree/master/AndroidDatePicker/

How to set Minimum and Maximum Date in DatePicker :

In Contribution with above example we will see how to set minimum and maximum Date in Date Picker.

Add a Button in activity_main.xml.

MainActivity.java

Write a logic for button’s setOnClickListener(){..} . When event triggers then a Dialog with DatePicker will be shown to the user.

Create a Fragment class – DatePickerFragment, extend it with DialogFragment & implement it with DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener class :

Now create a new method onDateSet(){..} and add some code to it.

Output :

Download Project Link : 

https://github.com/hiteshbpatel/Android_Projects/tree/master/DatePickerDemo