How to change the style of a DatePicker in android?

Question

I want to change the default color of the date/time picker dialog in Android, so that it should match my app's theme. I searched for the solution on Google, but I couldn't find a solution.

What I was doing was creating a new style:

  <style name="datepicker" parent="@android:style/Widget.DeviceDefault.DatePicker">
    <!---TODO-->
    <item name="android:focusedMonthDateColor">@android:color/holo_red_dark</item>
</style>

Don't know what are the attributes available for date picker dialogue. It would be great if anyone could post a link on that

and after adding the style I was calling it in my main style as

 <item name="android:datePickerStyle">@style/datepicker</item>

Unfortunately, this didn't work for me at all.

Solution 1

Try this. It's the easiest & most efficient way

<style name="datepicker" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog">
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/primary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/primary_dark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/primary</item>
</style>

Solution 2

call like this

 button5.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

 @Override
 public void onClick(View v) {
 // TODO Auto-generated method stub

 DialogFragment dialogfragment = new DatePickerDialogTheme();

 dialogfragment.show(getFragmentManager(), "Theme");

 }
 });

public static class DatePickerDialogTheme extends DialogFragment implements DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener{

     @Override
     public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState){
     final Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
     int year = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);
     int month = calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH);
     int day = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

//for one

//for two 

 DatePickerDialog datepickerdialog = new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(),
 AlertDialog.THEME_DEVICE_DEFAULT_DARK,this,year,month,day);

//for three 
 DatePickerDialog datepickerdialog = new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(),
 AlertDialog.THEME_DEVICE_DEFAULT_LIGHT,this,year,month,day);

// for four

   DatePickerDialog datepickerdialog = new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(),
 AlertDialog.THEME_HOLO_DARK,this,year,month,day);

//for five

 DatePickerDialog datepickerdialog = new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(),
     AlertDialog.THEME_HOLO_LIGHT,this,year,month,day);

//for six

 DatePickerDialog datepickerdialog = new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(),
 AlertDialog.THEME_TRADITIONAL,this,year,month,day);


     return datepickerdialog;
     }

     public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int month, int day){

     TextView textview = (TextView)getActivity().findViewById(R.id.textView1);

     textview.setText(day + ":" + (month+1) + ":" + year);

     }
     }

follow this it will give you all type date picker style(copy from this)

http://www.android-examples.com/change-datepickerdialog-theme-in-android-using-dialogfragment/

Solution 3

To change DatePicker colors (calendar mode) at application level define below properties.

<style name="MyAppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="colorAccent">#ff6d00</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">#33691e</item>
    <item name="android:selectableItemBackgroundBorderless">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorControlHighlight">#d50000</item>
</style>

See http://www.zoftino.com/android-datepicker-example for other DatePicker custom styles

Solution 4

Create a new style

<style name="my_dialog_theme" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dialog">
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>                   <!--header background-->
    <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/colorPrimary</item>     <!--calendar background-->
    <item name="android:colorControlActivated">@color/colorAccent</item> <!--selected day-->
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/colorPrimaryText</item> <!--days of the month-->
    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/colorAccent</item>    <!--days of the week-->
</style>

Then initialize the dialog

Calendar mCalendar = new GregorianCalendar();
mCalendar.setTime(new Date());

new DatePickerDialog(mContext, R.style.my_dialog_theme, new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {
    @Override
    public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int monthOfYear, int dayOfMonth) {
        //do something with the date
    }
}, mCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR), mCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH), mCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)).show();

Result:

Solution 5

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();

DatePickerDialog datePickerDialog = new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(), R.style.DatePickerDialogTheme, new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {
  public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int monthOfYear, int dayOfMonth) {
    Calendar newDate = Calendar.getInstance();
    newDate.set(year, monthOfYear, dayOfMonth);

    SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
    String date = simpleDateFormat.format(newDate.getTime());
  }
}, calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR), calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH), calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));

datePickerDialog.show();

And use this style:

<style name="DatePickerDialogTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog">
  <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorPrimary</item>
</style>

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Comments

[kaya]

@WolfJee use like this; int theme; if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 23) theme = AlertDialog.THEME_HOLO_DARK; else theme = android.R.style.Theme_Holo_Dialog; new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(), theme, date,......

[Shirish Herwade]

very good answer, if you don't want any change in styles and themes of application only for datePicker. But you have just messed up with example images' numbers, e.g .THEME_DEVICE_DEFAULT_LIGHT corresponds to second image I think. Also I'm getting now deprecated error for above code for API >23

[Someone Somewhere]

I hate the new "Material" style for Google's date picker because users have no fricken clue that the year can be changed by clicking in the top-left corner!! Horrible UX!

[Someone Somewhere]

@kaya your suggestion isn't working. Try it on Android 7.0 emulator

[Someone Somewhere]

@WolfJee did you find a solution?

[silverFoxA]

Isn't it the same code snippet as that of the accepted answer?

[Nunchucks]

Almost, but the name is different. Setting the name to 'datepicker' didn't work for me, but changing it to 'CalendarDatePickerDialog' made it work.

[Kavin Raju S]

How to set the button style? I tried setting buttonBarNegativeButtonStyle buttonBarNeutralButtonStyle buttonBarPositiveButtonStyle buttonStyle but not reflecting.

[Mahdi]

I have same issue and can not change button style

[Mahdi]

How I can change button text colors?

[Mahdi]

How I can change button style or button text color?

[sejn]

Can I able to change the corner radius?

[J A S K I E R]

Took no effect with Kotlin.

[Daniyal Javaid]

Thanks. i was having invisible/white positive and negative buttons before. This fixed it.

[Admin]

@Mahdi see Rohit's answer (that will change the button text color)

[Admin]

@Mahdi see Rohit's answer (that will change the button text color)

[user924]

what if DatePicker is used in xml?

[user924]

what if DatePicker is used in xml?

[Hitesh Dhamshaniya]

It works like a charm. Thank you for sharing...