Trying to set text of EditText from DatePicker DialogFragment

Question

I am simply trying to get the date from a datepicker dialog I created from one of the many android datepicker tutorials I found online. I seem to be going wrong somewhere in the actual retrieving of the text date once it is selected. I have a DatePickerFragment class, which is called from a CreateEvent fragment which is nested inside my MainActivity activity class. This is the DatePicker:

public class DatePickerFragment extends DialogFragment
        implements DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener {

    private EditText txtDate;
    @Override
    public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // Use the current date as the default date in the picker
        final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
        int year = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
        int month = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
        int day = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
        // Create a new instance of DatePickerDialog and return it
        return new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(), this, year, month, day);
    }

    public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int month, int day) {
        txtDate = (EditText)view.findViewById(R.id.txtDate);
        txtDate.setText(day + " " + (month + 1) + " " + year);
    }
}

I get Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.widget.EditText.setText(java.lang.CharSequence) on a null object reference when I actually try and set the date, which I understand means it can't actually find the edittext element in my create event fragment xml file.

How should I go about setting the text of this edittext element from onDateSet or do I have to change my approach?

I tried it this way but to no avail.

Answer 1

You need to use an interface to get the data from the datepicker to the caller fragment:

public interface DateListener {
    void passDate(String date);
}

Create a member variable called mListener:

private DateListener mListener;

Override the onAttach & onDetach fragment methods:

@Override
public void onAttach(Activity activity) {
    super.onAttach(activity);
    try {
        mListener = (DateListener) activity;
    } catch (ClassCastException e) {
        throw new ClassCastException(activity.toString() + " must implement DateListener");
    }
}

@Override
public void onDetach() {
    super.onDetach();
    mListener = null;
}

Next, implement this interface in the caller fragment and override the passDate method:

@Override
public void passDate(String date) {
    // Do something with 'date', yourEditText.setText(date) for the example
}

And you should be good to go.