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Android Material Date Picker and Material Time Picker in practice
A quick overview on how to use the material components for picking date and time
Not only provides the material library the MaterialDatePicker for easily implementing date selection with material style. With the recently released version 1.3.0 of the Android material library, we now finally have stable access to the MaterialTimePicker component which allows easy time selection.
In this article, I provide you a quick overview of how to use both of these components with practical code examples.
Preparations
Let’s start with the MaterialDatePicker which was firstly introduced in version 1.1.0-alpha09 of the Android material library.
First, create a new project with a single activity and call it MainActivity. Go to your app-level build.gradle and make sure that your dependencies contain the material library with at least version 1.3.0:
