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Material slide date picker

A slide date picker for Android
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Material Slide Date Picker

A slide date picker for Android.

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Prerequisites

This library uses AndroidX library. If your project uses Android Support Library, consider migrating your project to AndroidX.

Installation

Add this to project level build.gradle

allprojects {
  repositories {
    ...
    maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
  }
}

Add the dependency into you app level build.gradle

implementation 'com.github.niwattep:material-slide-date-picker:v2.0.0'  

Usage

Show Dialog

Slide Date Picker implements DialogFragment so that it will retain its state when configuration change happens. You can show the dialog by using supportFragmentManager of an activity (or childFragmentManager of a fragment).

SlideDatePickerDialog.newInstance().show(supportFragmentManager, "TAG")

You can show the dialog using its builder.

SlideDatePickerDialog.Builder().build().show(supportFragmentManager, "TAG")

Callback

Your activity or fragment must implement interface SlideDatePickerDialogCallback.

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity(), SlideDatePickerDialogCallback {
    override fun onPositiveClick(day: Int, month: Int, year: Int, calendar: Calendar) {
        tvDate.text = SimpleDateFormat("EEEE, MMM dd, yyyy").format(calendar.time)
    }

Customization

SlideDatePickerDialog.Builder()
  .setStartDate(startCalendar)
  .setEndDate(endCaledar)
  .setPreselectedDate(todayCalendar)
  .setYearModifier(543)
  .setLocale(Locale("th"))
  .setThemeColor(Color.RED)
  .setHeaderTextColor(Color.WHITE)
  .setHeaderDateFormat("EEE dd MMMM")
  .setShowYear(true)
  .setCancelText("Cancel")
  .setConfirmText("Confirm")
  .build()
  .show(supportFragmentManager, "TAG")

There are 11 things you can customize:

  1. StartDate - Calendar object of minimum available date (default value is January 1st, current year - 100)
  2. EndDate - Calendar object of maximum available date (default value is Calendar.getInstance())
  3. PreselectedDate - Date that is selected when start the dialog (dafault value is Calendar.getInstance())
  4. YearModifier - When you want to show year in diffent format (default is 0)
  5. Locale - Locale for formatting date (default is Locale.US)
  6. ThemeColor - Color of dialog
  7. HeaderTextColor - Color of display date
  8. HeaderDateFormat - Format of display date
  9. ShowYear - Show or hide year of display date
  10. CancelText - String of cancel button
  11. ConfirmText - String of confirm button

Acknowledgment

This library is inspired by https://github.com/akexorcist/Android-SnapTimePicker

Donation

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