I'm trying to add the new Android 5.0 Material Design Datepicker to my pre 5.0 application using AppCompat. I've added
compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.0"
to my build.gradle file and updated my Theme to:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<style name="AppTheme.Base" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
</style>
but the Datepicker still looks like this:
And not like this:
Can anybody tell me how to get the new datepicker to work on pre 5.0 devices?
Thanks in advance.
Best Answer
Update:
As well pointed out by jfcartier, there's now also MaterialDateTimePicker. It's probably a nicer solution than the one below since it has a nice themable API.
You could try the android-betterpickers library. It has a
CalendarDatePickerDialog
widget that looks like the one you want. It provides a light and a dark theme, but for customizing colors you'd have to add it as a library project and change the code yourself.Usage is pretty straightforward once you add the library to your project.
The end result should look like this (sorry for the poor quality).