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

Posted by Malcolm Mutambanengwe
Malcolm Mutambanengwe
4,205 Points

setting formatted date

Steve Hunter

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(ReleaseDate) {
    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

      return SimpleDateFormat;
    }  
}

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,682 Points

Hi,

You want to call the format method on the new formatter instance and pass in mReleaseDate as the parameter. Use dot notation for the method call; formatter.format(); and put the date that is already declared in the brackets. That will return a formatted string to the call; return that straight out of your method:

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

Make sense?

Steve.