Monday, August 4, 2014

Display date/time in various format with SimpleDateFormat

Examples of using java.text.SimpleDateFormat:


package com.example.androidtime;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;


public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

TextView cal = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.cal);

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat format1 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
SimpleDateFormat format2 = new SimpleDateFormat("yy/MM/dd");
SimpleDateFormat format3 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
SimpleDateFormat format4 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy MMM dd (EEE)");
SimpleDateFormat format5 = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm a");
SimpleDateFormat format6 = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");

cal.setText(
format1.format(calendar.getTime()) + "\n" +
format2.format(calendar.getTime()) + "\n" +
format3.format(calendar.getTime()) + "\n" +
format4.format(calendar.getTime()) + "\n" +
format5.format(calendar.getTime()) + "\n" +
format6.format(calendar.getTime())
);

}

}

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:orientation="vertical"
tools:context="com.example.androidtime.MainActivity" >

<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="android-coding.blogspot.com" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/cal"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textSize="20sp" />

</LinearLayout>

Related: Display formatted date/time using String.format().

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