Formatting a String date into a different format in Java

Question

I am trying to format a JSON which has a date key in the format:

date: "2017-05-23T06:25:50"

My current attempt is the following:

private String formatDate(String date) {
  SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/DD/yyyy");
  String formattedDate = "";

  try {
    formattedDate = format.format(format.parse(String.valueOf(date)));
  } catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
  }

  return formattedDate;
}

But in this occasion, the result isn't shown in my app, the TextView is invisible and I couldn't log anything.

I really tried other solutions, but no success for me. I don't know if it's because the incoming value is a string.

Answer 1

Use this code to format your `2017-05-23T06:25:50'

String strDate = "2017-05-23T06:25:50";
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
Date convertedDate = new Date();
try {
    convertedDate = dateFormat.parse(strDate);
    SimpleDateFormat sdfnewformat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd yyyy");
    String finalDateString = sdfnewformat.format(convertedDate);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

The converted finalDateString set to your textView