Removing AM/PM in Android Time picker Widget

Question

Is there any way to remove the AM/PM in a Time Picker Widget?

I have this function in my application but its purpose is to select only Hour and Minutes not including AM/PM, I tried to setIs24HourView(true) but it makes the time 24hours, I only want 12 hours.

Yeah, it looks like the only way `TimePicker` will hide that on its own is if it's in 24-hour mode. See if [this code](http://pastebin.com/LJSN75L7) works for ya, before I post it. I can't test it, at the moment. — Mike M., Aug 22 '16 at 04:21
@MikeM. -> and it's works! Thank you! Please make it Answer instead of comment, Also this can help the others so if you put the code in Answer instead of link that will be very appreciated. Thank you. — Polar, Aug 22 '16 at 05:25

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 22 '16 at 05:34

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It seems there is no public method in TimePicker to directly hide or show the AM/PM chooser. However, a look at the source code will give us the name of the resource ID for that View, which we can get with the system Resources. Then it's simply a matter of finding the View, and setting its visibility to GONE.

private void hideAmPmLayout(TimePicker picker) {
    final int id = Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier("ampm_layout", "id", "android");
    final View amPmLayout = picker.findViewById(id);
    if(amPmLayout != null) {
        amPmLayout.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    }
}

answered Aug 22 '16 at 05:34

Mike M.

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How to do the same for `TimePickerDialog`? – shinilms Jun 29 '17 at 11:58
@ShinilMS You can call `findViewById()` on a `Dialog`. – Mike M. Jun 29 '17 at 16:52
Yea right, but the view is always null. I can't hide the AM/PM in `TimePickerDialog`. – shinilms Jun 30 '17 at 05:09
Thank you it works now. I was calling `hideAmPmLayout(mTimePickerDialog);` before `mTimePickerDialog.show();`. – shinilms Jun 30 '17 at 05:22
I got this error **Type inference failed: Not enough information to infer parameter T in fun findViewById(p0: Int): T! Please specify it explicitly.** – P A Gosai Nov 19 '19 at 05:30
@PAGosai That's nothing specific to this code. https://stackoverflow.com/q/45267041, https://stackoverflow.com/q/44950401. – Mike M. Nov 19 '19 at 07:27

Removing AM/PM in Android Time picker Widget

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