What is everyone using as a date picker in Compose...

# compose

[Scott Peterson]

What is everyone using as a date picker in Compose land?

[Csaba Szugyiczki]

We are using MaterialDatePickerDialog from Compose and it is working fine, but a bit tricky to get it work

[Csaba Szugyiczki]

you can get the activity via LocalContext val activity = LocalContext.current.getActivity()

[Csaba Szugyiczki]

fun Context.getActivity(): FragmentActivity? {
    var currentContext = this

    while (currentContext is ContextWrapper) {
        if (currentContext is FragmentActivity) {
            return currentContext
        }

        currentContext = currentContext.baseContext
    }

    return null
}

[Csaba Szugyiczki]

and then use the activity to display the date picker dialog

[Csaba Szugyiczki]

there was no fully working Compose alternative by the time we needed such component (around last September) not sure about now

[Tgo1014]

This lib is what I used: https://github.com/vanpra/compose-material-dialogs

[Scott Peterson]

thank you both!

[FunkyMuse]

You can always use the XML date picker inside compose, stackoverflow