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How to get current day,month and year from Extended Calendar View android and adding events to a particular date

I have implemented extended calendar view(com.tyczj.extendedcalendarview.ExtendedCalendarView) in my project.But i was unable to get current date from extended calendar view.I would like to get the day,month and year from calendar and display it in another 3 textviews. I would like to add events to some particular dates and changing the background color of that particular day.Please help me to find a solution for this

This should work for a calendar:
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);

setMaxDate to DatePickerDialog

Hi I implemented a DatePickerDialog but I want to set range, I found setMinDate and setMaxDate, but I don't know how to put values. I want to set the calendar for a user of min age 18 and max age 100; I think it's about calculations into milliseconds.
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);
DatePickerDialog dpd = new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(), AlertDialog.THEME_DEVICE_DEFAULT_LIGHT, this, year, month, day);
dpd.getDatePicker().setMaxDate(max);
return dpd;
I don't know what value I have to put to max to do 2016 - 18.

Use this code, to set maximum date and minimum date from current date.
Calendar minCal = Calendar.getInstance();
minCal.set(Calendar.YEAR, minCal.get(Calendar.YEAR) - 100);
Calendar maxCal = Calendar.getInstance();
maxCal.set(Calendar.YEAR, maxCal.get(Calendar.YEAR) - 18);
dialog.getDatePicker().setMinDate(minCal.getTimeInMillis());
dialog.getDatePicker().setMaxDate(maxCal.getTimeInMillis());

I guess this is what you need:
final Calendar maxc = Calendar.getInstance();
int year = maxc.get(Calendar.YEAR);
maxc.set(Calendar.YEAR,year-18);
datePickerDialog.getDatePicker().setMaxDate(maxc.getTimeInMillis());
final Calendar minc = Calendar.getInstance();
int year = minc.get(Calendar.YEAR);
minc.set(Calendar.YEAR,year-100);
datePickerDialog.getDatePicker().setMinDate(minc.getTimeInMillis());
datePickerDialog.show();

Why the current year in the date saved as 3912?

to get the current date and time
final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
mYear = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
mMonth = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
mDay = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
mHour = c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
mMinute = c.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
to create current date object
Date toDate;
toDate.setYear(mYear);
toDate.setMonth(mMonth);
toDate.setDate(mDay);
Date endDate = toDate;
when printing endDate object I got
Mon Jan 01 13:11:00 GMT+03:00 3912
why ?

From Date.setYear(int) description: Sets the gregorian calendar year since 1900 for this Date object. Thus, 1900 + 2012 = 3912.
But calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR) returns exact year number 2012. So this inconsistency of API causes your issue. But anyway Date.setYear(int) is deprecated, thus, it is better to use Calendar object for date calculations.

Better to use Calendar
Calendar cal=Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.YEAR,myear);
(i.e)
cal.set(Calendar.YEAR,2016);

How do I set the current date in a DatePicker?

I need to be able to choose date and time in my application
It should either be done by using a dialog, or starting a new intent.
The way I have done it now, is that I have started a new intent, since I need to set both date and time.
My problem is that I need to set the current date on the Datepicker (This is possible with the Timepicker using setCurrentHour and setCurrentMinute) onCreate, and set that as a lower boundary.
I can't find any functions in the Android API for doing this with the DatePicker.
Anyone have a suggestion to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance!
Edit:
Important: The DatePicker and TimePicker must be in the same dialog/intent

Straight to code
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
int mYear = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int mMonth = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int mDay = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
DatePickerDialog dialog =
new DatePickerDialog(this, mDateSetListener, mYear, mMonth, mDay);
dialog.show();

Try this:
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
year = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
month = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
day = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
// set current date into datepicker
datepicker.init(year, month, day, null);

If you are simply looking for the equivalent of setCurrentHour() and setCurrentMinute() on TimePicker, but on DatePicker - see updateDate (int year, int month, int dayOfMonth) on DatePicker.
DatePicker mDatePicker = (DatePicker) findViewById(R.id.datePicker);
mDatePicker.updateDate(1994, 6, 12);
// Sets date displayed on DatePicker to 12th June 1994

You can query the current date through the Calendar class.
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
now.get(Calendar.WHATDOYOUNEED);
Feed it's get() method with different parameters to customize your query.

The tutorial for the DatePicker seems to do exactly this?
http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-datepicker.html
Refer to:
// get the current date
final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
mYear = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
mMonth = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
mDay = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
// display the current date (this method is below)
updateDisplay();

Check this it has pics to demonstrate.

Setting minimum year in Calendar

I want to use a calendar in android. Within the calendar, I want to set the minimum year of 1998; T the user should not able to enter a year before that. How can I solve this problem? By default it goes before 1998.
I am using following code:
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
int cyear = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int cmonth = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int cday = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
mDatePickerDialog = new DatePickerDialog(WinningNumberPowerBall.this, mDateSetListener, cyear, cmonth,cday);
mDatePickerDialog.show();
By using this my calendar year starts from 1900 but I want to start the year at 1998. How can I do this?

I think you can just do:
...
Calendar minCal = new GregorianCalendar(1998, Calendar.JANUARY, 1);
mDatePickerDialog.getDatePicker().setMinDate(minCal.getTimeInMillis());
mDatePickerDialog.show();