TimePicker.md

Time pickers

Time pickers help users select and set a specific time.

Contents

• Using time pickers
• Time pickers
• Theming time pickers

Using time pickers

Before you can use Material time pickers, you need to add a dependency to the Material Components for Android library. For more information, go to the Getting started page.

Usage

API and source code:

• MaterialTimePicker
  • Class definition
  • Class source

A time picker can be instantiated with MaterialTimePicker.Builder

val picker =
    MaterialTimePicker.Builder()
        .setTimeFormat(TimeFormat.CLOCK_12H)
        .setHour(12)
        .setMinute(10)
        .setTitleText("Select Appointment time")
        .build()

minute is a [0, 60) value and hour is a [0, 23] value regardless of which time format you choose.

You can use either TimeFormat.CLOCK_12H (1 ring) or TimeFormat.CLOCK_24H (2 rings), depending on the location of the device:

val isSystem24Hour = is24HourFormat(this)
val clockFormat = if (isSystem24Hour) TimeFormat.CLOCK_24H else TimeFormat.CLOCK_12H

The time picker's input mode defaults to clock mode (INPUT_MODE_CLOCK) with TimeFormat.CLOCK_12H and text input mode (INPUT_MODE_KEYBOARD) with TimeFormat.CLOCK_24H.

The time picker can be started in clock mode with:

MaterialTimePicker.Builder().setInputMode(INPUT_MODE_CLOCK)

The time picker can be started in text input mode with:

MaterialTimePicker.Builder().setInputMode(INPUT_MODE_KEYBOARD)

To show the time picker to the user:

 picker.show(fragmentManager, "tag");

Subscribe to positive button click, negative button click, cancel and dismiss events with the following calls:

picker.addOnPositiveButtonClickListener {
    // call back code
}
picker.addOnNegativeButtonClickListener {
   // call back code
}
picker.addOnCancelListener {
    // call back code
}
picker.addOnDismissListener {
    // call back code
}

You can get the user selection with picker.minute and picker.hour.

Making time pickers accessible

Material time pickers are fully accessible and compatible with screen readers. The title of your time picker will be read when the user launches the dialog. Use a descriptive title that for the task:

val picker =
   MaterialTimePicker.Builder()
       .setTitleText("Select Appointment time")
   ...

Anatomy and key properties

A Time Picker has a title, an input method, a clock dial, an icon to switch input and an AM/PM selector.

1. Title
2. Interactive display and time input for hour and minutes
3. Clock dial
4. Icon button to switch to time input
5. AM/PM selector

Attributes

Element	Attribute	Related method(s)	Default value
Hour	N/A	Builder.setHour MaterialTimePicker.getHour	0
Minute	N/A	Builder.setMinute MaterialTimePicker.getMinute	0
Title	N/A	Builder.setTitleText	Select Time
Keyboard Icon	app:keyboardIcon	N/A	@drawable/ic_keyboard_black_24dp
Clock Icon	app:clockIcon	N/A	@drawable/ic_clock_black_24dp
Clock face Background Color	app:clockFaceBackgroundColor	N/A	?attr/colorSurfaceVariant
Clock hand color	app:clockNumberTextColor	N/A	?attr/colorPrimary
Clock Number Text Color	app:clockNumberTextColor	N/A	?attr/colorOnBackground

Styles

Element	Style
Default style	Widget.Material3.MaterialTimePicker

Default style theme attribute: ?attr/materialTimePickerStyle

The style attributes are assigned to the following components:

Element	Affected component	Default
chipStyle	Number inputs in the clock mode	@style/Widget.Material3.MaterialTimePicker.Display
materialButtonOutlinedStyle	AM/PM toggle	@style/Widget.Material3.MaterialTimePicker.Button
imageButtonStyle	Keyboard/Text Input button	@style/Widget.Material3.MaterialTimePicker.ImageButton
materialClockStyle	Clock Face of the Time Picker	@style/Widget.Material3.MaterialTimePicker.Clock

See the full list of styles and attributes.

Theming time pickers

Time Pickers support Material Theming which can customize color and typography.

Time picker theming example

The following example shows a Time Picker with Material Theming.

Use theme attributes and styles in res/values/styles.xml, which styles all time pickers and affects other components:

<style name="Theme.App" parent="Theme.Material3.*">
    ...
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/shrine_pink_100</item>
    <item name="colorOnPrimary">@color/shrine_pink_900</item>
    <item name="colorOnSurface">@color/shrine_pink_100</item>
    <item name="chipStyle">@style/Widget.App.Chip</item>
</style>

<style name="Widget.App.Chip" parent="Widget.Material3.MaterialTimePicker.Display">
  <item name="android:textColor">@color/shrine_diplay_text_color</item>
</style>

In res/color/shrine_diplay_text_color.xml:

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

  <item android:color="?attr/colorOnSecondary" android:state_enabled="true" android:state_selected="true"/>
  <item android:color="?attr/colorOnSecondary" android:state_enabled="true" android:state_checked="true"/>
  <item android:alpha="0.87" android:color="?attr/colorOnSurface" android:state_enabled="true"/>
  <item android:alpha="0.33" android:color="?attr/colorOnSurface"/>

</selector>

<style name="Widget.App.TimePicker.Clock" parent="Widget.Material3.MaterialTimePicker.Clock">
    <item name="clockFaceBackgroundColor">@color/...</item>
    <item name="clockHandColor">@color/...</item>
    <item name="clockNumberTextColor">@color/...</item>
</style>

You can also set a theme specific to the time picker

<style name="Theme.App" parent="Theme.Material3.*">
    ...
    <item name="materialTimePickerTheme">@style/ThemeOverlay.App.TimePicker</item>
</style>