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Multiple DatePickers in same activity

Asked 2010-09-17T11:43:27.950
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I am absolutely new to the Android platform and have been building an application while learning the development process.

Currently, I am working on an activity in which i need to deploy 2 date pickers. One is a "Start Date" and the other is an "End date". I have been following the DatePicker tutorial on the android developers page here: http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-datepicker.html

For one DatePicker, it works just fine.

Now my problem is, when I replicate the whole process for a second date picker, it shows up just fine on the emulator as well as on the handset. But when no matter which button I press to select the dates, only the first TextView is updated and the second TextView keeps showing the current date.

Here is the code:

package com.datepicker;

import java.util.Calendar;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.DatePickerDialog;
import android.app.Dialog;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.DatePicker;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class datepicker extends Activity {

private TextView mDateDisplay;
private TextView endDateDisplay;
private Button mPickDate;
private Button endPickDate;
private int mYear;
private int mMonth;
private int mDay;

static final int START_DATE_DIALOG_ID = 0;
static final int END_DATE_DIALOG_ID = 0;


/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    /*  capture our View elements for the start date function   */
    mDateDisplay = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.startdateDisplay);
    mPickDate = (Button) findViewById(R.id.startpickDate);

    /* add a click listener to the button   */
    mPickDate.setOnClickListener(new V
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Expanding Adam's option into an slightly lighter weight interpretation and potentially more useful, I decided to maintain an int reference for the element ID that instantiated the dialog request and then just referenced that in the final event handler. This has the added benefit of fitting nicely into a switch statement in this method in case you have multiple date inputs but want specific formatting for each or groups of each. All snippets below are in my Activity class directly

Instance variables

private static final int        DIALOG_DATE_PICKER  = 100;
private int                     datePickerInput;

Dialog Handler

@Override
public Dialog onCreateDialog(int id)
{
    switch(id) {
        case DIALOG_DATE_PICKER:
            final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
            DatePickerDialog dialog = new DatePickerDialog(this, dateSetListener, c.get(Calendar.YEAR), c.get(Calendar.MONTH), c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
            return dialog;
    }
    return null;
}

Click Listener

private OnClickListener datePickerListener =
    new OnClickListener()
{
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v)
    {
        datePickerInput = v.getId();
        showDialog(DIALOG_DATE_PICKER);
    }
};

Date Selection Handler

private DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener dateSetListener =
    new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener()
{
    @Override
    public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int monthOfYear, int dayOfMonth)
    {
        switch( datePickerInput ) {
            case R.id.datePicker1:
                ((EditText) findViewById( datePickerInput ))
                    .setText(...);
                ...
                break;
            case R.id.datePicker2:
                ...
                break;
            default:
                ...
                break;
        }
    }
};
answered 2011-10-06T21:49:49.830

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