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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Working with JSON Formatting a Date

Posted by Jason Hunt
Jason Hunt
4,604 Points

Help! I have a problem here. The problem I suspect is in the return statement but I could be wrong.

Tried many variations of the return statement but none are working out.

Movie.java 
import java.util.Date;

public class Movie {

    private String mTitle;
    private Date mReleaseDate;

    public String getTitle() {
        return mTitle;
    }

    public void setTitle(String title) {
        mTitle = title;
    }

    public Date getReleaseDate() {
        return mReleaseDate;
    }

  public String getFormattedReleaseDate()  {
    SimpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
        return  "";
  }

    public void setReleaseDate(Date date) {
        mReleaseDate = date;
    }
}

2 Answers

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Jason:

You aren't defining a variable for the date. Remember the syntax would be similar to:

SimpleDateFormat variableName = new simpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

Post back if you are still stuck.

Happy coding,

Ken

Jason Hunt
Jason Hunt
4,604 Points
Jason Hunt
Jason Hunt
4,604 Points

Thanks, that was helpful !