Question

I am using this to read over a list of HTML items.

while (postIt.hasNext()) {
    Element name = postIt.next();
    nameOf = name.text();

    String platform = postIt.next().text();

    //Get the URL
    Element url = name.select("a").first();
    urlString = url.attr("href");

    //Get the Genre of the item
    String genre = postIt.next().text();

    //Get the date
    Date = postIt.next().text();
}

What i would like to do is compare the Date String to that of the current date on the android device?
How would i go about doing this via Calendar?

Answer 1

I would do this using Date and SimpleDateFormat

Date d = new Date(); //todays date (current time)

//set the pattern here to look like the pattern you are expecting in your 'Date' variable
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

String formattedDate = sdf.format(d);
//for today the string would look like this: "2011-08-26"

boolean isToday = formattedDate.equals(Date); //your answer...

If you are unfamiliar with SimpleDateFormatter, check out the documentation here. It has a lot of helpful information for setting up your pattern.