How to display date picker for android with only month and year fields?

Question

i want to disable the day selection option on the android sdk date picker. any easy xml configuration would be the best

Answer 1

It possible to hack the DatePicker instance using reflection. This way, you are able to access the NumberPicker instance which represent the day in the DatePicker:

datePicker = (DatePicker) findViewById(R.id.expiration_date);
try {
    Field f[] = datePicker.getClass().getDeclaredFields();
    for (Field field : f) {
        if (field.getName().equals("mDayPicker")) {
            field.setAccessible(true);
            Object dayPicker = new Object();
            dayPicker = field.get(datePicker);
            ((View) dayPicker).setVisibility(View.GONE);
        }
    }
} catch (SecurityException e) {
    Log.d("ERROR", e.getMessage());
} 
catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
    Log.d("ERROR", e.getMessage());
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
    Log.d("ERROR", e.getMessage());
}