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

Posted by MUZ140584 Heredity Mbundire
MUZ140584 Heredity Mbundire
4,979 Points

I modified our Movie class to have a full date for the release date instead of just the year. We want to display it in y

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 "";
    }
}

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hiya,

First, you need to implement the method outline, as you have done.

Next, you need to create a new variable of type SimpleDateFormat - I've called it simpleDate. The public constructor for this class takes a string format as a parameter. The documentation shows you all the possible formats, but the question helpfully tells you what to use.

The next line uses the format method of the SimpleDateFormat class and passes in a Date parameter. That converst the date to a string.

That string is then returned from the method.

Hope that helps.

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

Steve.