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

Taylor Cu
Taylor Cu
1,882 Points
Posted by Taylor Cu
Taylor Cu
1,882 Points

In your new method, add a SimpleDateFormat variable. Use "yyyy-MM-dd" for the format parameter of the constructor.

I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong. I looked up other solutions and they put SimpleDataFormat outside of the curly braces of getFormattedTime(). So i guess two questions. What am I doing wrong and if SimpleDataFormat is supposed to be on the outside of the braces...Why?

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() {
        SimpleDataFormat formatter = new SimpleDataFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
        return "";
    }

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

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,414 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,414 Points

You misspelled Simple*Date*Formatter as Simple*Data*Formatter

Taylor Cu
Taylor Cu
1,882 Points
Taylor Cu
Taylor Cu
1,882 Points

Ahhhh shoot haha thank you Seth! Appreciate it! Something so simple.