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

Posted by ammonquackenbush
ammonquackenbush
3,867 Points

How do you use SimpleDateFormat?

How do you format the SimpleDateFormat variable and use the Date variable to set and return the date.

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 sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    String s = sdf.format(mReleaseDate);
    return mReleaseDate;
  }
}

1 Answer

Nicolas Hampton
Nicolas Hampton
44,638 Points

The date variable is given in milliseconds I believe, so you need to multiple the release date by 1000.

Nicolas Hampton
Nicolas Hampton
44,638 Points

Then return the string, not the release date you turned into a string.

ammonquackenbush
ammonquackenbush
3,867 Points

Thanks