Android - Time Picker

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Android Time Picker allows you to select the time of day in either 24 hour or AM/PM mode. The time consists of hours, minutes and clock format. Android provides this functionality through TimePicker class.

In order to use TimePicker class, you have to first define the TimePicker component in your activity.xml. It is define as below −

<TimePicker
   android:id="@+id/timePicker1"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

After that you have to create an object of TimePicker class and get a reference of the above defined xml component. Its syntax is given below.

import android.widget.TimePicker;
private TimePicker timePicker1;
timePicker1 = (TimePicker) findViewById(R.id.timePicker1);	

In order to get the time selected by the user on the screen, you will use getCurrentHour() and getCurrentMinute() method of the TimePicker Class. Their syntax is given below.

int hour = timePicker1.getCurrentHour();
int min = timePicker1.getCurrentMinute();

Apart form these methods, there are other methods in the API that gives more control over TimePicker Component. They are listed below.

Example

Here is an example demonstrating the use of TimePicker class. It creates a basic Time Picker application that allows you to set the time using TimePicker Widget

To experiment with this example , you can run this on an actual device or in an emulator.

Following is the content of the modified main activity file src/com.example.timepicker/MainActivity.java.

package com.example.timepicker;

import java.util.Calendar;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.TimePicker;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
   private TimePicker timePicker1;
   private TextView time;
   private Calendar calendar;
   private String format = "";

   @Override
   protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
      
      timePicker1 = (TimePicker) findViewById(R.id.timePicker1);
      time = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
      calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
      
      int hour = calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
      int min = calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
      showTime(hour, min);
   }

   public void setTime(View view) {
      int hour = timePicker1.getCurrentHour();
      int min = timePicker1.getCurrentMinute();
      showTime(hour, min);
   }

   public void showTime(int hour, int min) {
      if (hour == 0) {
         hour += 12;
         format = "AM";
      } else if (hour == 12) {
         format = "PM";
      } else if (hour > 12) {
         hour -= 12;
         format = "PM";
      } else {
         format = "AM";
      }
		
      time.setText(new StringBuilder().append(hour).append(" : ").append(min)
      .append(" ").append(format));
   }


}

Following is the modified content of the xml res/layout/activity_main.xml.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   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"
   tools:context=".MainActivity" >
   
   <TextView
      android:id="@+id/textView2"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
      android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
      android:text="@string/time_pick"
      android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
      
   <Button
      android:id="@+id/set_button"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
      android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
      android:layout_marginBottom="180dp"
      android:onClick="setTime"
      android:text="@string/time_save" />
      
   <TimePicker
      android:id="@+id/timePicker1"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_above="@+id/set_button"
      android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
      android:layout_marginBottom="24dp" />
      
   <TextView
      android:id="@+id/textView3"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/timePicker1"
      android:layout_alignTop="@+id/set_button"
      android:layout_marginTop="67dp"
      android:text="@string/time_current"
      android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
      
   <TextView
      android:id="@+id/textView1"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_below="@+id/textView3"
      android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
      android:layout_marginTop="50dp"
      android:text="@string/time_selected"
      android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

</RelativeLayout>

Following is the content of the res/values/string.xml.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="app_name">TimePicker</string>
   <string name="action_settings">Settings</string>
   <string name="time_picker_example">Time Picker Example</string>
   <string name="time_pick">Pick the time and press save button</string>
   <string name="time_save">Save</string>
   <string name="time_selected"></string>
   <string name="time_current">The Time is:</string>
</resources>

Let's try to run our TimePicker application we just modified. I assume you had created your AVD while doing environment setup. To run the app from Android studio, open one of your project's activity files and click Run icon from the toolbar. Android Studio installs the app on your AVD and starts it and if everything is fine with your setup and application, it will display following Emulator window −