Display current date in action bar in Android

Question

I want to make a calendar application for my project, and I want to show the current date with the title "Month" and subtitle "Day and Year".

I have extended the action bar height and hide the action bar title, but how can I add the current date to the starting point of the action bar?

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

0

Adding TextView to ActionBar:

Dynamic TextView on ActionBar

Todays date in dd/MM/yyyy format:

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
String date = dateFormat.format(c.getDate());

//if you want dd/MM/yyyy as separate units
String[] separatedDate = date.split("/");

edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

Community

1
1

answered Sep 27 '16 at 01:48

BiGGZ

503
4
17

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

0

Add a TextView manually to the Action Bar:

TextView tv = new TextView(this);
        tv.setText(<Replace with DateTime Related Variable here>);
        tv.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.WHITE));
        tv.setOnClickListener(this);
        tv.setPadding(5, 0, 5, 0);
        tv.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);
        tv.setTextSize(14);
        menu.add(0, FILTER_ID, 1, R.string.matchmacking).setActionView(tv).setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS);

And you're good to go.

This was adapted from Yashdeep Patel

edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

Community

1
1

answered Sep 27 '16 at 01:51

Nicholas

1,883
21
39

You can use TextClock instead of TextView with this code to show the current time. – Alexey Ozerov Jan 12 '21 at 05:33

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 27 '16 at 06:35

get current date

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"),Locale.getDefault());
            SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
            String currentDate = df.format(c.getTime());

and,you can set toolbar title or actionbar title

toolbar.setTitle(currentDate);

or

getActionBar().setTitle(currentDate);

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 05 '19 at 13:36

in the layout folder create file called clock.xml with following contents;

<TextClock xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/textClock"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:format24Hour="dd/MM/yyyy   HH:mm:ss"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Small"
    android:textColor="@color/colorWhite"
    android:textSize="50sp"
    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:visibility="visible"
    tools:visibility="visible"/>

In the Activity add the following in the onCreate;

Objects.requireNonNull(getSupportActionBar()).setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);
getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(R.layout.clock);

Display current date in action bar in Android

4 Answers4