How to turn off CalendarView in a DatePicker?

Question

On my settings screen I have a date picker widget. In the designer in Eclipse, it shows as I want (3 spinners for D-M-Y) but when I test on my device, I get a rather odd view with a side spinner on the left and a calendar on the right. Never seen this before(!) but doing some research I think I'm seeing the "CalendarView".

I found that I should be able to set a "calendarViewShown" property to false- but my XML throws an error with this. I found another question on here that suggested the API level was to blame (my minSDKLevel is 7, but I'm targetting 11 so I can get the action bar button rather than the oldskool menu). So I thought I'd try setting it in code:

    int currentapiVersion = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;     if (currentapiVersion >= 11)         minDateSelector.setCalendarViewShown = false; 

But again, this fails- setCalendarViewShown isn't found. But the docs here say it should exist. Any ideas?!

Answer 1

If you are targeting a later version of the API, you can use the following XML (no need to write Java code) in your <DatePicker>:

 android:calendarViewShown="false" 

Answer 2

The method in DatePicker

    public void setCalendarViewShown (boolean shown) 

exists starting with API 11. If you minSdkLevel = 7 the compiler does not recognize this as a valid method - the method does not exist on android 2.3 or 2.2. The best way is to solve this is using reflection. Something like this should work properly:

int currentapiVersion = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT; if (currentapiVersion >= 11) {   try {     Method m = minDateSelector.getClass().getMethod("setCalendarViewShown", boolean.class);     m.invoke(minDateSelector, false);   }   catch (Exception e) {} // eat exception in our case }