Working with Date Pickers in Flutter

Working with Date Pickers in Flutter

Date pickers are a great way to let users quickly select a date and time from a calendar view. Flutter provides an easy-to-use widget called DatePicker for selecting dates. In this blog, we will take a look at how to work with date pickers in Flutter.

Creating a Date Picker

Creating a date picker in Flutter is straightforward – just use the DatePicker widget. You can set the initial date, as well as the date format.

For example, the following code creates a DatePicker with an initial date of January 1st, 2020:

DateTime initialDate = new DateTime(2020, 1, 1);

DatePicker(
    initialDate: initialDate,
    dateFormat: DateFormat.yMMMd(),
    onDateChanged: (date) {
        // handle date change
    },
),

Working With Date Formatters

In many cases, you may want to display dates in a particular format. This is where the DateFormat class comes in handy. It provides a variety of commonly used formats for dates and times.

For example, the DateFormat class has a method for formatting dates in the ISO 8601 format:

String formattedDate = DateFormat.yMMMd().format(date);
// Outputs "Jan 1, 2020"

Conclusion

In this blog post, we have seen how easy it is to work with date pickers in Flutter. We have also seen how to use the DateFormat class to format dates for display. Using date pickers and date formatters together, you can easily display dates in any format you need.