How to Change the Datepicker style for Android

Question

I'm currently making a registration form, and one of the fields is for the users Date of Birth. I want to use datepicker, however I don't want the calendar layout as shown below:

I want the layout to look something like this so that way its easier to choose the year and month without having to scroll through everything:

However I do not know how to go about this, or what to put inside the styles.xml file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Solution 1

Add this to style.xml

<style name="date_picker_theme" parent="@android:style/Widget.DatePicker">

And then you should apply style for your date picker like this:

<DatePicker
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/datePicker"
        style="@style/date_picker_theme" />

Solution 2

Create style with

<style name="DatePicker" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:datePickerStyle">@android:style/Widget.DatePicker</item>
</style>

Then in custom fragment dialog xml

<DatePicker
    android:theme="@style/DatePicker"
    android:id="@+id/fragment_date_picker_control"
    android:datePickerMode="spinner"
    android:spinnersShown="true"
    android:calendarViewShown="false"
    android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/margin_normal"
    android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/margin_normal"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />

Link : http://yogeshkalwar.blogspot.in/2017/08/custom-spinner-datepicker-supporting-n70.html

Solution 3

It might be too late but you can set it programmatically like these.
Apply it inside your onClick listener.

        DatePickerDialog datePicker = new DatePickerDialog(
                this,
                android.R.style.Theme_Holo_Light_Dialog_MinWidth,
                datePickerListener,
                cal.get(Calendar.YEAR),
                cal.get(Calendar.MONTH),
                cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
        datePicker.setCancelable(false);
        datePicker.setTitle("Select the date");
        datePicker.show();

The android.R.style.Theme_Holo_Light_Dialog_MinWidth create style that you want.
Hope it helps someone.

Solution 4

To set the DatePicker style globally, add the following to style.xml, or adjust existing content:

<resources>
  <style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="android:datePickerStyle">@style/MyDatePicker</item>
  </style>
  ...
</resources>

And define your customized DatePicker style, either in style.xml or a separate file, e.g.:

<resources>
  <style name="MyDatePicker" parent="@android:style/Widget.DatePicker">
    <item name="android:calendarViewShown">false</item>
    <item name="android:datePickerMode">spinner</item>
  </style>
</resources>

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Comments

[iflorit]

Not working set programmatically? I've tried this but nothing changes :(

[Victor V.]

I think, you can use DatePickerFragment and ContextThemeWrapper

[Victor V.]

Create new instance of theme wrapper ContextThemeWrapper(Context base, int themeResId) and when you create DatePickerDialog you should transfer this context constructor - DatePickerDialog(Context context).

[iflorit]

Finally, my only working solution has been to create an AlertDialog and include a DatePicker as a view . Thanks!