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

Posted by l l
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l l
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 1,052 Points

How can i convert date type variable to SimpleDateFormate.

The mReleaseDate is a Date type variable. Convert and return it using the SimpleDateFormate variable.

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

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

    }
}

1 Answer

Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points
Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points

You can do this by calling the "format" method from a SimpleDateFormat object and passing in the thing you want to convert (that's what you'll use in your return statement).

It will look similar to this:

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
formatter.format(mSomeDate);

Hopefully that helps, let me know if you're still stuck.