How to get the date from the DatePicker widget in Android

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I use a DatePicker widget in Android for the user to set a date  and want to get the date value when a confirm button is clicked  how can I do that

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I manged to set the MinDate  amp  the MaxDate programmatically like this        final Calendar c   Calendar getInstance         int maxYear   c get Calendar YEAR  - 20     this year   2011   - 20   1991     int maxMonth   c get Calendar MONTH       int maxDay   c get Calendar DAY OF MONTH        int minYear   1960      int minMonth   0     january     int minDay   25        Override     public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState                super onCreate savedInstanceState           setContentView R layout create account           BirthDateDP    DatePicker  findViewById R id create account BirthDate DatePicker           BirthDateDP init maxYear - 10  maxMonth  maxDay  new OnDateChangedListener                       Override         public void onDateChanged DatePicker view  int year  int monthOfYear  int dayOfMonth                        if  year  lt  minYear                  view updateDate minYear  minMonth  minDay                    if  monthOfYear  lt  minMonth  amp  amp  year    minYear                  view updateDate minYear  minMonth  minDay                    if  dayOfMonth  lt  minDay  amp  amp  year    minYear  amp  amp  monthOfYear    minMonth                  view updateDate minYear  minMonth  minDay                     if  year  gt  maxYear                  view updateDate maxYear  maxMonth  maxDay                    if  monthOfYear  gt  maxMonth  amp  amp  year    maxYear                  view updateDate maxYear  maxMonth  maxDay                    if  dayOfMonth  gt  maxDay  amp  amp  year    maxYear  amp  amp  monthOfYear    maxMonth                  view updateDate maxYear  maxMonth  maxDay                   BirthDateDP init            activity   it works fine for me  enjoy

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Try this    DatePicker datePicker    DatePicker  findViewById R id datePicker1    int day   datePicker getDayOfMonth     int month   datePicker getMonth     1   int year   datePicker getYear

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If you are using Kotlin  you can define an extension function for DatePicker   fun DatePicker getDate    Date       val calendar   Calendar getInstance       calendar set year  month  dayOfMonth      return calendar time     Then  it s just  datePicker getDate    As if it had always existed

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you mean that you want to add DatePicker widget into your apps   Global variable declaration into your activity class   private Button mPickDate  private int mYear  private int mMonth  private int mDay  static final int DATE DIALOG ID   0    write down this code into onCreate   function     date picker presentation     mPickDate    Button  findViewById R id pickDate    button for showing date picker dialog      mPickDate setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener             public void onClick View v    showDialog DATE DIALOG ID                     get the current date     final Calendar c   Calendar getInstance        mYear   c get Calendar YEAR       mMonth   c get Calendar MONTH       mDay   c get Calendar DAY OF MONTH            display the current date     updateDisplay      write down those function outside of onCreate   function     return date picker dialog  Override protected Dialog onCreateDialog int id        switch  id        case DATE DIALOG ID          return new DatePickerDialog this  mDateSetListener  mYear  mMonth  mDay             return null       update month day year private void updateDisplay         mBodyText setText   this is the edit text where you want to show the selected date         new StringBuilder                  Month is 0 based so add 1          append mYear  append  -            append mMonth   1  append  -            append mDay  append                        append mMonth   1  append  -                  append mDay  append  -                  append mYear  append              the call back received when the user  sets  the date in the dialog private DatePickerDialog OnDateSetListener mDateSetListener       new DatePickerDialog OnDateSetListener             public void onDateSet DatePicker view  int year  int monthOfYear  int dayOfMonth                mYear   year              mMonth   monthOfYear              mDay   dayOfMonth              updateDisplay

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The DatePicker class has methods for getting the month  year  day of month  Or you can use an OnDateChangedListener

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you can also use this code     datePicker    DatePicker  findViewById R id schedule datePicker   int day   datePicker getDayOfMonth    int month   datePicker getMonth     1  int year   datePicker getYear      SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter   new SimpleDateFormat  MM-dd-yyyy    Date d   new Date year  month  day   String strDate   dateFormatter format d

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U can also use te Calendar GregorianCalendar java class      GregorianCalendar calendarBeg new GregorianCalendar datePicker getYear            datePicker getMonth   datePicker getDayOfMonth         Date begin calendarBeg getTime

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