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

Vidit Shah
Vidit Shah
6,037 Points
Posted by Vidit Shah
Vidit Shah
6,037 Points

Whats Wrong with this code task-2 Date error fixing

./Movie.java:24: error: cannot find symbol SimpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"); ^ symbol: variable SimpleDateFormat location: class Movie 1 error Cant Understand

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 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

} 
}

1 Answer

orbyt
orbyt
10,358 Points
orbyt
orbyt
10,358 Points

You need to instantiate the variable and give it a name:

SimpleDateFormat object = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");