React Native date picker

Saad Qureshi — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 21:05:19 +0000

How to add Placeholder in Date Picker?

How to use react-native-date-picker as component?
Mostly, we should have to use every thing as child component.

Install via npm or yarn

npm install react-native-date-picker

yarn add react-native-date-picker

Install pods

cd ios && pod install

Rebuild the project

npx react-native run-android
npx react-native run-ios

now create a component folder in your project if you have already that just open it and create Picker component name as Picker.js
copy the code given below and paste it in your file Picker.js

moment Library use for Date formatting

import React, {useState, useCallback} from 'react';
import {
  StyleSheet,
  Text,
  TextInput,
  View,
  TouchableOpacity,
} from 'react-native';
import DatePicker from 'react-native-date-picker';
import moment from 'moment';

export const MydatePicker = ({
  customstyles,
  dateFormat,
  placeholder,
  onSetDate,
}) => {
  const [date, setDate] = useState(new Date());
  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
  const [placeHolderText, setPlaceHolderText] = useState(true);

  return (
    <View>
      <TouchableOpacity
        style={[styles.pickerStyle, customstyles]}
        onPress={() => setOpen(true)}>
        <Text style={styles.pickerText}>
          {placeHolderText
            ? placeholder
            : moment(date).format(dateFormat ? dateFormat : 'DD MMM YYYY')}
        </Text>
      </TouchableOpacity>
      <DatePicker
        modal
        mode="date"
        open={open}
        date={date}
        onDateChange={setDate}
        onConfirm={date => {
          const newDate = moment(date).format(
            dateFormat ? dateFormat : 'DD MMM YYYY',
          );
          setOpen(false);
          setDate(date);
          onSetDate(newDate);
          setPlaceHolderText(false);
        }}
        onCancel={() => {
          setOpen(false);
        }}
      />
    </View>
  );
};

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
   pickerStyle: {
    alignSelf: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    width: 300,
    height: 50,
    padding: 5,
    margin: 10,
    borderWidth: 1,
    borderBottomColor: 'black',
    borderRadius: 5,
    color: 'black',
    backgroundColor: 'white',
  },
  pickerText: {
    color: 'block',
    backgroundColor: 'white',
  },
});

now move to your Screen where you want to use date picker and import Picker component like
import MydatePicker from './components/picker';

copy the code given below and paste it in your file Screen

// your code...
  const [selectedValue, setSelectedValue] = useState('');
// your code...
 <MydatePicker
    placeholder={'hello place holder'}
    onSetDate={date => {
    setSelectedValue(date);
   }}
  />

You also can change the picker style.
There are multiple modes of picker
date picker mode. "datetime", "date", "time",

More information about date-picker can be found in the
react-native-date-picker

Leave a comment if you have any questions or feedback.

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React Native date picker