When I create a MaterialDatePicker
it picks the previous date of the date I specified, instead of the specified date:
You can see that the EditText has May 12, 2019 but the DatePicker shows as May 11, 2019
Code for the openDatePicker is:
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
binding = ActivityMainBinding.inflate(getLayoutInflater());
setContentView(binding.getRoot());
setSupportActionBar(binding.toolbar);
String dateText = "May 12, 2019";
binding.etDate.setText(dateText);
try {
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy").parse(dateText);
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(date);
binding.etDate.setTag(cal);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
binding.etDate.setOnClickListener(v -> {
Calendar defaultCal = Calendar.getInstance();
if (binding.etDate.getTag() != null) {
defaultCal = (Calendar) binding.etDate.getTag();
}
openDatePicker(binding.etDate, defaultCal, createDatePickerConstraints(defaultCal, null, null));
});
}
private void openDatePicker(final EditText tv, Calendar defaultDate, CalendarConstraints constraints) {
try {
MaterialDatePicker.Builder<Long> builder = MaterialDatePicker.Builder.datePicker();
builder.setCalendarConstraints(constraints);
builder.setSelection(defaultDate.getTimeInMillis());
MaterialDatePicker<Long> datePicker = builder.build();
datePicker.addOnPositiveButtonClickListener(selection -> {
Calendar selectedCalObj = Calendar.getInstance();
selectedCalObj.setTimeInMillis((long) selection);
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
String date = dateFormat.format(selectedCalObj.getTime())
.replace("a.m.", "AM")
.replace("p.m.", "PM")
.replace("am", "AM")
.replace("pm", "PM");;
tv.setText(date);
tv.setTag(selectedCalObj);
});
datePicker.addOnNegativeButtonClickListener(view -> {
Log.d(TAG, "Cancelled");
});
datePicker.show(getSupportFragmentManager(), TAG);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
// helper function to give the constraints:
private CalendarConstraints createDatePickerConstraints(final Calendar entry, final Calendar start, final Calendar end) {
CalendarConstraints.Builder constraintsBuilder = new CalendarConstraints.Builder();
if (entry != null)
constraintsBuilder.setOpenAt(entry.getTimeInMillis());
if (start != null) {
constraintsBuilder.setStart(start.getTimeInMillis());
constraintsBuilder.setValidator(DateValidatorPointForward.from(start.getTimeInMillis()));
}
if (end != null) {
constraintsBuilder.setEnd(end.getTimeInMillis());
constraintsBuilder.setValidator(DateValidatorPointBackward.before(end.getTimeInMillis()));
}
return constraintsBuilder.build();
}
Possible way that I know to is to fix by offsetting the EditText
binding.etDate.setTag
at onCreate
to the current timezone I am in (since the issue is the time being May 12, 2019 0:00:00 that might be the issue of the DatePicker picking the previous date when opened) but it would be really helpful if there is a better way to do this, since this seems like a more common code that will be useful everywhere so that I can make it as a library and just call this as a library code in my main application.
Any help would be appreciated.
So, after going through loads of GitHub issues, I found that MaterialDatePicker
has getters and setters only for time in UTC, so offsetting values won't be a good idea so pass in the current time to it as a UTC like: Link for converting current timezone to UTC
My sample code:
try {
SimpleDateFormat fromDate = new SimpleDateFromat("MMM dd, yyyy");
fromDate.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
Date date = fromDate.parse(inputDateString);
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(Locale.getDefault());
cal.setTime(date);
binding.etDate.setTag(cal);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
I will be using the tag from the EditText
later to populate my CalendarConstraints
and the MaterialDatePicker
's setSelection
later.
Hope this is helpful!