Question

Android programming.
I have a json returning the date from a database as a string. How do I extract the date from the string using Joda or any other library to this format mm/dd/yy.
Here is the string 2012-05-22T00:00:00

Answer 1

With standard JDK, you could use SimpleDateFormat

Date parsedDateInstance = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss").parse(dateString);

String formattedDate = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy").format(dateInstance);