Android CalendarView for Showing Events

Question

I want to show a calendar with events using different colors on the date similar to default Calendar application. But I don't see any such API on the default calendar view.

Can anyone please direct me on right direction how to proceed with this? Should I extend default calendar and add my own functionality? Or should I use 5x5 text boxes with PageViewer and fragments?

Answer 1

The built in CalendarView widget doesn't expose the ability to change the color of the calendar cells in month view. See the source.

You might try the following approaches:

1. Extend from CalendarView and implement onDraw yourself. You'll have to reimplement all the existing drawing behavior, including these 4 methods:

   protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
       drawBackground(canvas);
       drawWeekNumbersAndDates(canvas);
       drawWeekSeparators(canvas);
       drawSelectedDateVerticalBars(canvas);
   }
   

2. Implement you own CalendarView that allows customizing cells. I suggest this project as a good place to get started, since it already supports custom cells.