Date Time Picker of Xamarin.Android
9 Apr 202017 minutes to read
In our Xamarin.Forms, SfPicker control has multi column support. Using this we can populate day, month, year, hour and minute values of collection in SfPicker control.
We have demonstrated how to create custom DateTimePicker using Picker control in the following steps.
Step 1 : We have created custom class named as “DateTimePicker”. This class should inherit from SfPicker control.
public class DateTimePicker : SfPicker
{
}Step 2 : After that create six ObservableCollection with object type in DateTimePicker class.
Collection details :
Day Collection, Month Collection, Year Collection, Hour Collection and Minute Collection.
Day Collection -> We have added current month days using DateTime.DaysInMonth.
Month Collection -> We have added Jan to Dec months
Year Collection -> We have added 1990 to 2050 years.
Hour Collection -> We have added 0 to 24 hours.
Minute Collection -> We have added 00 to 59 minutes.
Date Collection -> We have added all the five collections.
Date Collection is main collection we have assigned this collection to ItemsSource of Picker Control.
The below code demonstrates Date collection creation.
public class DateTimePicker : SfPicker
{
#region Public Properties
// Months API is used to modify the Day collection as per change in Month
internal Dictionary<string, string> Months { get; set; }
/// <summary>
/// Date is the actual DataSource for SfPicker control which will holds the collection of Day ,Month and Year
/// </summary>
/// <value>The date.</value>
public ObservableCollection<object> Date { get; set; }
//Day is the collection of day numbers
internal ObservableCollection<object> Day { get; set; }
//Month is the collection of Month Names
internal ObservableCollection<object> Month{ get; set; }
//Year is the collection of Years from 1990 to 2042
internal ObservableCollection<object> Year{ get; set; }
//Hour is the collection of Hours in Railway time format
internal ObservableCollection<object> Hour{ get; set; }
//Minute is the collection of Minutes from 00 to 59
internal ObservableCollection<object> Minute{ get; set; }
#endregion
public DateTimePicker(Context context) : base(context)
{
Months = new Dictionary<string, string>();
Date = new ObservableCollection<object>();
Day = new ObservableCollection<object>();
Month = new ObservableCollection<object>();
Year = new ObservableCollection<object>();
Hour = new ObservableCollection<object>();
Minute = new ObservableCollection<object>();
PopulateDateCollection();
this.ItemsSource = Date;
}
private void PopulateDateCollection()
{
//populate months
for (int i = 1; i < 13; i++)
{
if (!Months.ContainsKey(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(i).Substring(0, 3)))
Months.Add(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(i).Substring(0, 3), CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(i));
Month.Add(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(i).Substring(0, 3));
}
//populate year
for (int i = 1990; i < 2050; i++)
{
Year.Add(i.ToString());
}
//populate Days
for (int i = 1; i <= DateTime.DaysInMonth(DateTime.Now.Year, DateTime.Now.Month); i++)
{
if (i < 10)
{
Day.Add("0" + i);
}
else
Day.Add(i.ToString());
}
//populate Hours
for (int i = 1; i <= 24; i++)
{
if (i < 10)
{
Hour.Add("0" + i.ToString());
}
else
Hour.Add(i.ToString());
}
//populate Minutes
for (int j = 0; j < 60; j++)
{
if (j < 10)
{
Minute.Add("0" + j);
}
else
Minute.Add(j.ToString());
}
Date.Add(Month);
Date.Add(Day);
Date.Add(Year);
Date.Add(Hour);
Date.Add(Minute);
}
}Step 3 : We have updated the day value based on month and year value using Selection changed event of SfPicker control. Since the days of each month differs we have to handle this collection.
public DateTimePicker(Context context) : base(context)
{
//hook selection changed event
this.OnSelectionChanged += DateTimePicker_OnSelectionChanged;
}
private void DateTimePicker_OnSelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
UpdateDays(Date, e);
}
//Update days method is used to alter the Date collection as per selection change in Month column(if Feb is Selected day collection has value from 1 to 28)
public void UpdateDays(ObservableCollection<object> Date, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
try
{
bool update = false;
if (e.OldValue != null && e.NewValue != null && (e.OldValue as IList).Count>0 && (e.NewValue as IList).Count>0)
{
if ((e.OldValue as IList)[0] != (e.NewValue as IList)[0])
{
update = true;
}
if ((e.OldValue as IList)[2] != (e.NewValue as IList)[2])
{
update = true;
}
}
if (update)
{
ObservableCollection<object> days = new ObservableCollection<object>();
int month = DateTime.ParseExact(Months[(e.NewValue as IList)[0].ToString()], "MMMM", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).Month;
int year = int.Parse((e.NewValue as IList)[2].ToString());
for (int j = 1; j <= DateTime.DaysInMonth(year, month); j++)
{
if (j < 10)
{
days.Add("0" + j);
}
else
days.Add(j.ToString());
}
if (days.Count > 0)
{
Date.RemoveAt(1);
Date.Insert(1, days);
this.ItemsSource = Date;
}
}
}
catch
{
}
}Step 4 : We have defined each column headers “MONTH”, “DAY”, “YEAR”, “HOUR” and “MINUTE” using ColumnHeaderText property of SfPicker control. The below code demonstrates how to define header for each column of SfPicker control.
public class DateTimePicker : SfPicker
{
/// <summary>
/// Headers API is holds the column name for every column in date picker
/// </summary>
/// <value>The Headers.</value>
public ObservableCollection<string> Headers { get; set; }
public DateTimePicker(Context context) : base(context)
{
Headers = new ObservableCollection<string>();
Headers.Add("MONTH");
Headers.Add("DAY");
Headers.Add("YEAR");
Headers.Add("HOUR");
Headers.Add("MINUTE");
//SfPicker header text
HeaderText = "SELECT A DATE & TIME";
// Column header text collection
this.ColumnHeaderText = Headers;
}
}Step 5 : Finally we have enabled SfPicker footer, header and Column header using ShowFooter, ShowHeader and ShowColumnHeader properties.
public DateTimePicker(Context context) : base(context)
{
//Enable Footer
ShowFooter = true;
//Enable SfPicker Header
ShowHeader = true;
//Enable Column Header of SfPicker
ShowColumnHeader = true;
}Step 6 : We have added the DateTimePicker control in MainActivity page. Please refer the below code snippets.
public class MainActivity : Activity
{
protected override void OnCreate (Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
DateTimePicker dateTimePicker = new DateTimePicker(this);
base.OnCreate (savedInstanceState);
dateTimePicker.ColumnHeaderHeight = 70;
dateTimePicker.PickerMode = PickerMode.Default;
dateTimePicker.PickerHeight = 400;
dateTimePicker.PickerWidth = 300;
dateTimePicker.SelectedItem =dateTimePicker.StartDate;
dateTimePicker.BackgroundColor = Color.White;
float height = this.Resources.DisplayMetrics.HeightPixels;
dateTimePicker.LayoutParameters = new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(Android.Views.ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MatchParent, (int)(height * 0.60));
SetContentView (dateTimePicker);
}
}Screen shot for the above codes.
We have attached DateTimePicker sample for reference. Please download the sample from the following link.
Sample link: DateTimePicker