React Native Date Picker – To Pick the Date using Native Calendar

React Native Date Picker

In post Working with Date Picker in React Native, we will see how to make a Date Picker using DatePicker Component from react-native-datepicker library. This post will give you a basic idea about the Date Picker and how to make a Date Picker for your React Native app which can be used on Android and IOS both.

DatePicker Component from react-native-datepicker is a single React Native Date Picker component for both Android and IOS, using DatePickerAndroid, TimePickerAndroid, and DatePickerIOS.

In this example, we will make a simple date picker with the default date passed by us and the user can choose any date by clicking on it. So let’s get started.

To Make a React Native App

Getting started with React Native will help you to know more about the way you can make a React Native project. We are going to use react native command line interface to make our React Native App.

If you have previously installed a global react-native-cli package, please remove it as it may cause unexpected issues:

npm uninstall -g react-native-cli @react-native-community/cli

Run the following commands to create a new React Native project

npx react-native init ProjectName

If you want to start a new project with a specific React Native version, you can use the --version argument:

npx react-native init ProjectName --version X.XX.X

Note If the above command is failing, you may have old version of react-native or react-native-cli installed globally on your pc. Try uninstalling the cli and run the cli using npx.

This will make a project structure with an index file named App.js in your project directory.

Installation of Dependency

To use DatePicker you need to install react-native-datepicker package.

To install this open the terminal and jump into your project using

cd ProjectName

Run the following command

npm install react-native-datepicker --save

This command will copy all the dependencies into your node_module directory. –save is optional, It updates the react-native-datepicker dependency in your package.json file.

Code for React Native Date Picker

Now Open App.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code

App.js

// React Native Date Picker – To Pick the Date using Native Calendar
// https://aboutreact.com/react-native-datepicker/

// import React in our code
import React, {useState} from 'react';

// import all the components we are going to use
import {
  SafeAreaView,
  StyleSheet,
  Text,
  View
} from 'react-native';

//import DatePicker from the package we installed
import DatePicker from 'react-native-datepicker';

const App = () => {
  const [date, setDate] = useState('09-10-2020');

  return (
    <SafeAreaView style={styles.container}>
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <Text style={styles.title}>
          React Native Date Picker – 
          To Pick the Date using Native Calendar
        </Text>
        <DatePicker
          style={styles.datePickerStyle}
          date={date} // Initial date from state
          mode="date" // The enum of date, datetime and time
          placeholder="select date"
          format="DD-MM-YYYY"
          minDate="01-01-2016"
          maxDate="01-01-2019"
          confirmBtnText="Confirm"
          cancelBtnText="Cancel"
          customStyles={{
            dateIcon: {
              //display: 'none',
              position: 'absolute',
              left: 0,
              top: 4,
              marginLeft: 0,
            },
            dateInput: {
              marginLeft: 36,
            },
          }}
          onDateChange={(date) => {
            setDate(date);
          }}
        />
      </View>
    </SafeAreaView>
  );
};

export default App;

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    padding: 10,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
  },
  title: {
    textAlign: 'center',
    fontSize: 20,
    fontWeight: 'bold',
    padding: 20,
  },
  datePickerStyle: {
    width: 200,
    marginTop: 20,
  },
});

To Run the React Native App

Open the terminal again and jump into your project using.

cd ProjectName

1. Start Metro Bundler

First, you will need to start Metro, the JavaScript bundler that ships with React Native. To start Metro bundler run following command

npx react-native start

Once you start Metro Bundler it will run forever on your terminal until you close it. Let Metro Bundler run in its own terminal. Open a new terminal and run the application.

2. Start React Native Application

To run the project on an Android Virtual Device or on real debugging device

npx react-native run-android

or on the iOS Simulator by running (macOS only)

npx react-native run-ios

Output Screenshots

Android

IOS

Output in Online Emulator

That was the React Native DatePicker. If you have any doubts or you want to share something about the topic you can comment below or contact us here. There will be more posts coming soon. Stay tuned!

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