Android Calendar View for Date Picker
Now, in 2014, even the native DatePicker
(link) contains small Holo looking CalendarView
(link) to pick a day in month.
You can choose, if both spinners and CalendarView
or just one of them is displayed by setting:
android:calendarViewShown
android:spinnersShown
I'm not sure if it's just API level 16+ or if it was even in Ice Cream Sandwich, but it's there. This is how it looks by default:
Moreover, on API level 21 and higher there is a new Material themed DatePicker
that looks like following:
This is default on API 21+ and there are no spinners anymore, but you can switch back to the Holo one by setting
android:datePickerMode="spinner"
in your XML.
Since the API 11 there natively: CalendarView
This View is in HoloEverywhere since API 7.
Is this type of functionality built into any android widget or view, or would I have to design my own custom > component to do this?
There is no component for that in the Android SDK, sorry. The widget you illustrate is too small for a touchscreen. You can implement something larger (see the Calendar app), but you are largely on your own for that.
what i found so far:
- http://code.google.com/p/android-calendar-view
- http://code.google.com/p/openintents/wiki/CalendarPickerAPI