Displaying a Date Picker dialog

In this recipe, you will learn to display a date picker dialog, allowing the user to scroll through days, months, and years to select the desired date.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will be making use of the following methods:

• dialogCreateDatePicker(): This method is used to display the date with the specified initial date
• dialogGetResponse(): This method is used to get the response, that is, the selection made by the user
• dialogDismiss(): This method is used to make the dialog box invisible after a selection been made by the user
• get("day"): This method is used to access the day in the Date type object
• get("month"): This method is used to access the month in the Date type object
• get("year"): This method is used to access the year in the Date type object

Let's take a look at the following steps:

1. Type the following code in the Python script demoDateSelection.py in the current folder of your computer:

import android
app = android.Android()
app.dialogCreateDatePicker...