Setting MinDate on DatePicker moves CalendarView to 1964

Question

I\'m debugging an issue where the CalendarView in a DatePicker moves to October 1964 if there is a non-default minimum date set. This reproduces at

Answer 1

The above answers are right on about the sources of this bug. For my application, I'm using this workaround:

Every time the DatePicker's date or minDate is changed, call the following routine with the date that should be selected in the picker/calendar:

private void fixUpDatePickerCalendarView(Calendar date) {
    // Workaround for CalendarView bug relating to setMinDate():
    // https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=42750
    // Set then reset the date on the calendar so that it properly
    // shows today's date. The choice of 24 months is arbitrary.
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
        final CalendarView cal = datePicker.getDatePicker().getCalendarView();
        if (cal != null) {
            date.add(Calendar.MONTH, 24);
            cal.setDate(date.getTimeInMillis(), false, true);
            date.add(Calendar.MONTH, -24);
            cal.setDate(date.getTimeInMillis(), false, true);
        }
    }
}