How to customize date picker's width and height in android

Question

Can anybody tell me how to customize the date picker\'s width and height in android?

Answer 1

In your layout's XML file, change the android:layout_height and android:layout_width attributes. I am assuming you are currently using either fill_parent or wrap_content for the values of these attributes, however you can be more specific - defining the exact or scaled pixel value.

For example, android:layout_width="15dp" will set the width at a scalable value of 15. You can change 15 to whatever you want. If you want to set a specific pixel size, you can use, for example, 15px.

Answer 2

The only way I've found to resize it is to simply re-scale the view. For example, if you only want 80% of the normal size, I would add these attributes:

android:scaleX="0.8"
android:scaleY="0.8"

Answer 3

For DatePicker and TimePicker:

1. android:scaleX="0.60" and android:scaleY="0.60"
   Above code will set the visible part of the Date and Time Picker to something like 60% of the total space and

2. android:layout_marginLeft="-50dp", android:layout_marginTop="-30dp", android:layout_marginRight="-50dp", android:layout_marginBottom="-30dp"
   Above code will remove extra spaces around this picker

   padding="-40dp" doesn't worked for me so I have used margin.

   <DatePicker
         android:id="@+id/date_picker"
         android:calendarViewShown="false"
         android:layout_height="105dp"
         android:layout_width="wrap_content"
         android:scaleX="0.60"
         android:scaleY="0.60"
         android:layout_marginLeft="-50dp"
         android:layout_marginTop="-30dp"
         android:layout_marginRight="-50dp"
         android:layout_marginBottom="-30dp" />
   
   <TimePicker
         android:id="@+id/time_picker"
         android:layout_width="wrap_content"
         android:layout_height="105dp"
         android:scaleX="0.60"
         android:scaleY="0.60"
         android:layout_marginLeft="-55dp"
         android:layout_marginTop="-30dp"
         android:layout_marginRight="-50dp"
         android:layout_marginBottom="-30dp" />