Date and time picker in Sketchware

1. Create a new project in Sketchware.

2. Add a Button button1 for picking date and time.

3. Add a TextView textview1, for displaying the selected date and time.

4. Add a Calendar component cal.

5. Create two more blocks, pickDate and pickTime.

6. In pickDate more block, use an add source directly block and put following code:



DatePickerDialog datePicker = new DatePickerDialog(
    this,
    new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {
        @Override
        public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int month, int dayOfMonth) {
cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, month);
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, dayOfMonth);
_pickTime();
}
},
cal.get(Calendar.YEAR),
cal.get(Calendar.MONTH),
cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)
);
        datePicker.show();

7. In pickTime more block, use an add source directly block and put following code:



TimePickerDialog timePicker = new TimePickerDialog(
    this,
    new TimePickerDialog.OnTimeSetListener() {
        @Override
        public void onTimeSet(TimePicker view, int hourOfDay, int minute) {
cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, hourOfDay);
cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, minute);
cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);

textview1.setText(new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm a").format(cal.getTime()));
        }
    },
    cal.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY),
    cal.get(Calendar.MINUTE),
    true
);
timePicker.show();

8. In button1 onClick event, use the pickDate more block.

9. Save and run the project.


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