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

the mRelease member variableis already stored as Data object.Convert it and return using the SimpleDateFormat variable

help!

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 () {
      return"";
    }
  SimpleDateFormat variableName = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");{
  return variableName.format(mReleaseDate);
}
}

2 Answers

Hiya,

Everything you've done is right but you've not put it all in one method:

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

I hope that helps!

Steve.

thanx steve,it worked