Currently I am using date picker native one but i want to change it in such a way that i only needed month and year how to modify this my code is following
After Brain Storming half a day i have found this solution this may help other having such scenarios
My Custom class for date Picker is Following that will update the date in title every time user change month/year
class CustomDatePickerDialog extends DatePickerDialog implements OnDateChangedListener {
private DatePickerDialog mDatePicker;
@SuppressLint("NewApi")
public CustomDatePickerDialog(Context context,int theme, OnDateSetListener callBack,
int year, int monthOfYear, int dayOfMonth) {
super(context, theme,callBack, year, monthOfYear, dayOfMonth);
mDatePicker = new DatePickerDialog(context,theme,callBack, year, monthOfYear, dayOfMonth);
mDatePicker.getDatePicker().init(2013, 7, 16, this);
updateTitle(year, monthOfYear);
}
public void onDateChanged(DatePicker view, int year,
int month, int day) {
updateTitle(year, month);
}
private void updateTitle(int year, int month) {
Calendar mCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
mCalendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
mCalendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, month);
// mCalendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, day);
mDatePicker.setTitle(getFormat().format(mCalendar.getTime()));
}
public DatePickerDialog getPicker(){
return this.mDatePicker;
}
/*
* the format for dialog tile,and you can override this method
*/
public SimpleDateFormat getFormat(){
return new SimpleDateFormat("MMM, yyyy");
};
}
and the following is the code that will hide the day and its spinner from the date picker dialog
CustomDatePickerDialog dp = new CustomDatePickerDialog(context, android.R.style.Theme_Holo_Light_Dialog, datePickerListener, year, month, day);
DatePickerDialog obj = dp.getPicker();
try{
Field[] datePickerDialogFields = obj.getClass().getDeclaredFields();
for (Field datePickerDialogField : datePickerDialogFields) {
if (datePickerDialogField.getName().equals("mDatePicker")) {
datePickerDialogField.setAccessible(true);
DatePicker datePicker = (DatePicker) datePickerDialogField.get(obj);
Field datePickerFields[] = datePickerDialogField.getType().getDeclaredFields();
for (Field datePickerField : datePickerFields) {
if ("mDayPicker".equals(datePickerField.getName()) || "mDaySpinner".equals(datePickerField
.getName())) {
datePickerField.setAccessible(true);
Object dayPicker = new Object();
dayPicker = datePickerField.get(datePicker);
((View) dayPicker).setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
}
}
}
}catch(Exception ex){
}
obj.show();