How to get the date from the DatePicker widget in Android?

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I use a DatePicker widget in Android for the user to set a date, and want to get the date value when a confirm button is clicked, how can I do that?

score 87 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 09 '12 at 09:48

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Try this:

 DatePicker datePicker = (DatePicker) findViewById(R.id.datePicker1);
 int day = datePicker.getDayOfMonth();
 int month = datePicker.getMonth() + 1;
 int year = datePicker.getYear();

edited Oct 09 '12 at 09:48

Shihab Uddin

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answered Jun 21 '11 at 07:42

Onuray Sahin

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This doesn't seem to work for me when updating the date picker values in the UI. It gives me the value it started with – Gene Bo Apr 29 '14 at 21:19
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Right. Please try to set OnDateSetListener to datePicker. – Onuray Sahin Apr 30 '14 at 10:08
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This worked for me. I set these values like this String day = String.valueof(datePicker.getDayOfMonth(); It so far works perfectly because it converts the ints to strings in my case for inserts to a sql database. – natur3 Apr 08 '15 at 03:02

score 23 · Answer 2 · 2011-11-01T00:38:45.870

I manged to set the MinDate & the MaxDate programmatically like this :

    final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();

    int maxYear = c.get(Calendar.YEAR) - 20; // this year ( 2011 ) - 20 = 1991
    int maxMonth = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
    int maxDay = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

    int minYear = 1960;
    int minMonth = 0; // january
    int minDay = 25;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.create_account);
        BirthDateDP = (DatePicker) findViewById(R.id.create_account_BirthDate_DatePicker);
        BirthDateDP.init(maxYear - 10, maxMonth, maxDay, new OnDateChangedListener()
        {

        @Override
        public void onDateChanged(DatePicker view, int year, int monthOfYear, int dayOfMonth)
        {
            if (year < minYear)
                view.updateDate(minYear, minMonth, minDay);

                if (monthOfYear < minMonth && year == minYear)
                view.updateDate(minYear, minMonth, minDay);

                if (dayOfMonth < minDay && year == minYear && monthOfYear == minMonth)
                view.updateDate(minYear, minMonth, minDay);


                if (year > maxYear)
                view.updateDate(maxYear, maxMonth, maxDay);

                if (monthOfYear > maxMonth && year == maxYear)
                view.updateDate(maxYear, maxMonth, maxDay);

                if (dayOfMonth > maxDay && year == maxYear && monthOfYear == maxMonth)
                view.updateDate(maxYear, maxMonth, maxDay);
        }}); // BirthDateDP.init()
    } // activity

it works fine for me, enjoy :)

i want to do opposite of it, means min date will be current date and max date will be any date greater than current date. How to do that. Any help will be highly appreciated.I tried but getting some problem.Have a look at this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8675984/date-picker-with-max-and-minimum-date-in-ondatechanged-in-android-1-5 — mH16, Dec 30 '11 at 05:31

score 15 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 29 '18 at 20:27

If you are using Kotlin, you can define an extension function for DatePicker:

fun DatePicker.getDate(): Date {
    val calendar = Calendar.getInstance()
    calendar.set(year, month, dayOfMonth)
    return calendar.time
}

Then, it's just: datePicker.getDate(). As if it had always existed.

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 21 '11 at 08:12

you mean that you want to add DatePicker widget into your apps.

Global variable declaration into your activity class:

private Button mPickDate;
private int mYear;
private int mMonth;
private int mDay;
static final int DATE_DIALOG_ID = 0;

write down this code into onCreate() function:

//date picker presentation
    mPickDate = (Button) findViewById(R.id.pickDate);//button for showing date picker dialog 
    mPickDate.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v) { showDialog(DATE_DIALOG_ID); }
    });

    // get the current date
    final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
    mYear = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
    mMonth = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
    mDay = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);


    // display the current date
    updateDisplay();

write down those function outside of onCreate() function:

//return date picker dialog
@Override
protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
    switch (id) {
    case DATE_DIALOG_ID:
        return new DatePickerDialog(this, mDateSetListener, mYear, mMonth, mDay);
    }
    return null;
}

//update month day year
private void updateDisplay() {
    mBodyText.setText(//this is the edit text where you want to show the selected date
        new StringBuilder()
            // Month is 0 based so add 1
        .append(mYear).append("-")
        .append(mMonth + 1).append("-")
        .append(mDay).append(""));


            //.append(mMonth + 1).append("-")
            //.append(mDay).append("-")
            //.append(mYear).append(" "));
}

// the call back received when the user "sets" the date in the dialog
private DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener mDateSetListener =
    new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {
        public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int monthOfYear, int dayOfMonth) {
            mYear = year;
            mMonth = monthOfYear;
            mDay = dayOfMonth;
            updateDisplay();
        }
};

Really a good one, you can also implement it if you require birthday input in an EditText — Syed Rafay, Mar 22 '18 at 15:56
Please note: onCreateDialog is deprecated, you can create a DialogFragment to use — Joseph Wambura, Jan 27 '19 at 09:21

Manigandan P.S · Answer 5 · 2016-12-05T10:21:32.727

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you can also use this code...

datePicker = (DatePicker) findViewById(R.id.schedule_datePicker);
int day = datePicker.getDayOfMonth();
int month = datePicker.getMonth() + 1;
int year = datePicker.getYear();


SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
Date d = new Date(year, month, day);
String strDate = dateFormatter.format(d);

edited Dec 05 '16 at 10:21

answered Dec 05 '16 at 10:00

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Pilot Alpal · Answer 6 · 2016-07-26T10:58:32.280

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U can also use te Calendar.GregorianCalendar java class

    GregorianCalendar calendarBeg=new GregorianCalendar(datePicker.getYear(),
        datePicker.getMonth(),datePicker.getDayOfMonth());
    Date begin=calendarBeg.getTime();

edited Jul 26 '16 at 10:58

answered Jul 07 '16 at 08:40

Pilot Alpal

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 21 '11 at 07:42

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The DatePicker class has methods for getting the month, year, day of month. Or you can use an OnDateChangedListener.

answered Jun 21 '11 at 07:42

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