material-components / material-components/material-components-android
[DatePicker] Support Custom date input hint
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
Currently I believe we can't set the hint as we want. We only able to change it by overriding the word using these strings res
```
y
m
d
```
but we need to follow the defined format dd/mm/yy.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
It would be nice to have if we can set the custom hint as we want maybe from dd/mm/yy to Day/Month/Year
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
Set the string res that won't printed as double word i.e I put d it will become dd, if I want to put Day it will printed as DayDay.
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Research direction
Start by locating the Android DatePicker text-input implementation and the existing mtrl_picker_text_input_year_abbr, month_abbr, and day_abbr string resources. Check how those resources produce repeated hints, then define the expected behavior for custom formats such as dd/mm/yy and Day/Month/Year; done means the requested hint can be customized without duplicated words.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, java
- Domain
- mobile-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100