How to Implement Date Range Picker in Android?

Date Range Picker is a widely used feature in many popular Android apps and an essential component of Material Design. It allows users to select a range of dates such as a start and end date for various purposes including scheduling, filtering data, and setting time boundaries. Some Of The Real Life Examples Of Date Range Picker are when we use some banking mobile applications and if we want to download the bank statement of our account for some particular date range then at that Date Range Picker is used. A sample video is given below to get an idea about what we are going to do in this article.

Note: This Android article covered in both Java and Kotlin languages. 

Step by Step Implementation

Step 1: Create a New Project in Android Studio

To create a new project in Android Studio please refer to How to Create/Start a New Project in Android Studio.

Step 2: Add Material Design Dependency in build.grade(Module)

For Using Material Date Picker in the Project.

XML

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.9.0'
}

Step 3: Working with the activity_main.xml file

Navigate to app > res > layout > activity_main.xml and add the below code to it. Comments are added in the code to get to know it in detail. We have created one simple UI with two text views one as a banner and one for setting the date that is selected by the user and we have also added one button that will show the date picker dialog.

activity_main.xml

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@color/white"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/banner"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
        android:text="@string/app_name"
        android:textAlignment="center"
        android:textSize="25sp"
        android:textColor="#F6F6"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        tools:layout_editor_absoluteX="16dp" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/selectedDate"
        android:layout_width="184dp"
        android:layout_height="42dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="384dp"
        android:textAlignment="center"
        android:textColor="@color/black"
        android:text="Selected Date Rnage"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/datePicker"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginBottom="172dp"
        android:text="Open Dialog"
        android:textSize="20sp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent" />

</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

Step 4: Working with the MainActivity file 

Navigate to app > java > your app’s package name > MainActivity file and add the below code to it. Comments are added in the code to get to know in detail. 

Java

package com.example.gfgapp;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
import androidx.core.util.Pair;

import com.google.android.material.datepicker.MaterialDatePicker;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    TextView selectedDate;
    Button datePicker;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);


        selectedDate = findViewById(R.id.selectedDate);
        datePicker = findViewById(R.id.datePicker);

        // Setting click listener for the date picker button
        datePicker.setOnClickListener(view -> DatePickerdialog());
    }

    private void DatePickerdialog() {
        // Creating a MaterialDatePicker builder for selecting a date range
        MaterialDatePicker.Builder<Pair<Long, Long>> builder = MaterialDatePicker.Builder.dateRangePicker();
        builder.setTitleText("Select a date range");

        // Building the date picker dialog
        MaterialDatePicker<Pair<Long, Long>> datePicker = builder.build();
        datePicker.addOnPositiveButtonClickListener(selection -> {

            // Retrieving the selected start and end dates
            Long startDate = selection.first;
            Long endDate = selection.second;

            // Formating the selected dates as strings
            SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy", Locale.getDefault());
            String startDateString = sdf.format(new Date(startDate));
            String endDateString = sdf.format(new Date(endDate));

            // Creating the date range string
            String selectedDateRange = startDateString + " - " + endDateString;

            // Displaying the selected date range in the TextView
            selectedDate.setText(selectedDateRange);
        });

        // Showing the date picker dialog
        datePicker.show(getSupportFragmentManager(), "DATE_PICKER");
    }
}

Kotlin

package com.example.gfgapp

import android.os.Bundle
import android.widget.Button
import android.widget.TextView
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import androidx.core.util.Pair
import com.google.android.material.datepicker.MaterialDatePicker
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
import java.util.Date
import java.util.Locale

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
    private lateinit var selectedDate: TextView
    private lateinit var datePicker: Button

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)

        selectedDate = findViewById(R.id.selectedDate)
        datePicker = findViewById(R.id.datePicker)

        // Setting click listener for the date picker button
        datePicker.setOnClickListener { datePickerDialog() }
    }

    private fun datePickerDialog() {
        // Creating a MaterialDatePicker builder for selecting a date range
        val builder = MaterialDatePicker.Builder<Pair<Long, Long>>.dateRangePicker()
        builder.setTitleText("Select a date range")

        // Building the date picker dialog
        val datePicker = builder.build()
        datePicker.addOnPositiveButtonClickListener { selection ->
            // Retrieving the selected start and end dates
            val startDate = selection.first
            val endDate = selection.second

            // Formatting the selected dates as strings
            val sdf = SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy", Locale.getDefault())
            val startDateString = sdf.format(Date(startDate))
            val endDateString = sdf.format(Date(endDate))

            // Creating the date range string
            val selectedDateRange = "$startDateString - $endDateString"

            // Displaying the selected date range in the TextView
            selectedDate.text = selectedDateRange
        }

        // Showing the date picker dialog
        datePicker.show(supportFragmentManager, "DATE_PICKER")
    }
}

Output: