Android TimePicker Example

Android TimePicker is a facility that allow you to give option to select time in your android application. The time will be consisting of hours,minutes etc.. Android itself is providing a TimePickerDialog class for selecting time. In this tutorial we will see how to implement TimePicker in android.This Android TimePicker example will consist of a TextView and a Button, the onclick of button will open a time picker and the selected time will be displayed in the TextView.

1. First step is to add the following code to your layout file, which will create a Textview and a Button

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout 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:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"
    tools:context="com.example.picker.MainActivity"
    tools:showIn="@layout/activity_main">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/tv_time"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:textSize="16sp"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:textStyle="bold"/>

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_time"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
            android:textColor="@color/white"
            android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
            android:text="Set Time"/>

    </LinearLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

2. Now use the following code in the onclick of button in your activity.

// Get Current time
final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
int hour = c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
int minute = c.get(Calendar.MINUTE);


TimePickerDialog timePickerDialog = new TimePickerDialog(MainActivity.this,
        new TimePickerDialog.OnTimeSetListener() {

            @Override
            public void onTimeSet(TimePicker view, int hourOfDay,
                                  int minute) {

                tv_time.setText(hourOfDay + ":" + minute);
            }
        }, hour, minute, false);
timePickerDialog.show();

Now run the code, here is the expected output.