How to disable dates before today date in DatePickerDialog Android?

Question

I want to disable the dates before today date in the DatePickerDialog .I am new in android please suggest me how could i do this .Here is my code that i have written for DatePickerDialog

 final DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener date = new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {

            @Override
            public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int monthOfYear,
                    int dayOfMonth) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                    myCalendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
                    myCalendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, monthOfYear);
                    myCalendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, dayOfMonth);
                    updateLabel(val);
            }
        };
        depart.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                    new DatePickerDialog(this, date, myCalendar
                            .get(Calendar.YEAR), myCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH),
                            myCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)).show();
                    val=1;
                }
            });

        returnDate.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                    new DatePickerDialog(this, date, myCalendar
                            .get(Calendar.YEAR), myCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH),
                            myCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)).show();
                            val=2;
                }
            });


private void updateLabel(int val) {

        String myFormat = "dd/MM/yy"; //In which you need put here
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(myFormat, Locale.US);
        Log.d("Date vlue ", "==="+sdf.format(myCalendar.getTime()));
        if(val==1)
            depart.setText(sdf.format(myCalendar.getTime()));
        else
            returnDate.setText(sdf.format(myCalendar.getTime()));

        }

Please suggest me what have to do

Answer 1

Get the DatePicker used in your DatePickerDialog with the getDatePicker() method and use the setMinDate(Long millis) method.

Pass to it the minimum date (in milliseconds from Epoch) you have to set.

So you can do something like

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date d = sdf.parse("21/12/2012");
DatePicker datePicker = date.getDatePicker();
datePicker.setMinDate(d.getTime());

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EDIT:

ok, so when your creating your DatePickerDialog, before showing it, just save it to a variable, set the minimum date and then show it.

DatePickerDialog dpd = new DatePickerDialog(IweenFlightSearch.this, date, myCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR), myCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH), myCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date d = sdf.parse("21/12/2012");
dpd.getDatePicker().setMinDate(d.getTime());
dpd.show();

this should work.