How to turn off CalendarView in a DatePicker?

Question

On my settings screen I have a date picker widget. In the designer in Eclipse, it shows as I want (3 spinners for D-M-Y) but when I test on my device, I get a rather odd vie

Answer 1

If you are targeting a later version of the API, you can use the following XML (no need to write Java code) in your :

 android:calendarViewShown="false"