I am getting the date (which is varchar in database) from database. I want to use this String as a date. the String format is “yyyy-mm-dd”. How will it be converted to actual date type?
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I am getting the date (which is varchar in database) from database. I want to use this String as a date. the String format is “yyyy-mm-dd”. How will it be converted to actual date type?
Two suggested options:
SimpleDateFormatif you’re happy using the JDK classes.DateTimeFormatterif you’re doing a lot of date/time work and thus want to use Joda Time.Personally I’m a big fan of Joda Time (and not a big fan of the JDK classes) but as you’re running on Android, you may not like the size of Joda Time. (You could build your own cut-down version, admittedly.)