Impossible to make my DatePickerDialog use a spinner style programmatically

Question

I'm using a DialogFragment to open a DatePickerDialog

public class DatePickerFragment extends DialogFragment{

@Override
public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    // Use the current date as the default date in the picker
    final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
    int year = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
    int month = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
    int day = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);


    // Create a new instance of DatePickerDialog and return it
    DatePickerDialog DatePickerDialog = new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(), (ProfileCreationActivity)getActivity(), year, month, day);
    return DatePickerDialog;
}

I'm getting a calendar look, where I would prefer a spinner look.

I tried:

datePickerDialog.getDatePicker().setCalendarViewShown(false);

and

datePickerDialog.getDatePicker().setLayoutMode(1);

but it does not work.

Please note that I want the spinner look for one activity, but that I will want the calendar view for another activity. So I can not change the whole application style. I need a custom style for one activity.

What you have should work. Things that make you go hmmmm.... — Kristy Welsh, May 28 '15 at 15:08
[This answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/33138181/2869508) worked for me with just one line. — Manuel BM, Mar 03 '17 at 21:41

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

I have found a the explanation in the following post (which describes a problem very similar to mine) :

Android Material Design Inline Datepicker issue

In fact the setCalendarViewShown(false) and setSpinnersShown(true) are apparently not working anymore in latest versions.

We have to use an explicit XML attribute like this one android:datePickerMode="spinner".

The problem is that I'm using a DialogFragment without any XML layout (just a date picker dialog). So I cannot set any XML attribute.

The solution is to create a dedicated custom dialog with an XML layout file using the requested attribute.

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 02 '16 at 12:42

You can keep it programatically, don't need to create a new XML with the spinner, I simply changed my AppTheme(v21) style and worked ;-)

<style name="AppTheme"  parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="android:timePickerDialogTheme">@style/PickerDialogCustom</item>
    <item name="android:datePickerDialogTheme">@style/PickerDialogCustom</item>
    <item name="alertDialogTheme">@style/AlertDialogCustom</item>
</style>

<style name="PickerDialogCustom" parent="AlertDialogCustom">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/greyLight500</item>
    <item name="android:layout_margin">2dp</item>
    <item name="android:datePickerMode">spinner</item>
</style>

<style name="AlertDialogCustom" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="android:positiveButtonText">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="android:negativeButtonText">@color/greyDark200</item>
    <item name="buttonBarNegativeButtonStyle">@style/negativeButton</item>
    <item name="android:datePickerStyle">@style/PickerDialogCustom</item>
</style>

remember to keep the support for <21 just adding this line, this command is ignored for >=21

datePickerDialog.getDatePicker().setLayoutMode(1);

Would it be okay if you can give a sample of negativeButton style resource to work with? — Rahul Mishra, Aug 13 '18 at 08:54

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 05 '20 at 11:53

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<item name="android:datePickerMode">spinner</item>Just add one line in style v21

answered Feb 05 '20 at 11:53

Pankaj Thakur

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 11 '22 at 09:48

Give it a theme.

DatePickerDialog dpd = new DatePickerDialog(.this,
                    android.R.style.Theme_Holo_Light_Dialog_NoActionBar, expirationDatePickerDialog,
                    myCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR),
                    myCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH),
                    myCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));

Impossible to make my DatePickerDialog use a spinner style programmatically

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