String to Date Formatting Using Java (Android)
Have you been trying to find a quick and easy way to format dates from a String? It can be quite tricky with Java (if you're new to it). So, I'm going to go through a few very simple steps to accomplish just that.
Here's the full piece of code:
String dateStr = "04/05/2010";
SimpleDateFormat curFormater = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date dateObj = curFormater.parse(dateStr);
SimpleDateFormat postFormater = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM dd, yyyy");
String newDateStr = postFormater.format(dateObj);
And now I'll take you through the important pieces of the code step by step.
String dateStr = "04/05/2010";
This is just the string that's holding the date, which we are going to parse.
SimpleDateFormat curFormater = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date dateObj = curFormater.parse(dateStr);
The first line instantiates a SimpleDateFormat object and tells it the format it should be looking for to parse. In this case it's dd/MM/yyyy which is identical to our date that we want to parse (04/05/2010).
The second line parses the date string and returns a Date object, which we'll be using later to format the date.
SimpleDateFormat postFormater = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM dd, yyyy");
String newDateStr = postFormater.format(dateObj);
And finally, we setup another SimpleDateFormat object for the new date format. We then call the format method and pass in the Date object that we created earlier. This returns a string with the newly created date format (ie. May 04, 2010).
Nice and user friendly!
The only one I could find in the web in this subject. Clear, clean and actually works.
I hope Google/Android would learn from you !