Question

i m creating date format like this :

SimpleDateFormat sdf =new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, EEE, h:mm a");

i need a new line between date, month and time something like this

thus ,sep 6
4:25pm

so i made the following changes :

SimpleDateFormat sdf =new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, EEE,"+"\n"+" h:mm a");

it did not give me anything just it created it in one line like this :

thus ,sep 6 4:25pm

so i took format object like this

SimpleDateFormat sdf =new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, EEE,");
SimpleDateFormat sdf1 =new SimpleDateFormat(" h:mm a");

and did this :

sdf.format(calendar.getTime())+"\n"+sdf1.format(calendar.getTime())

but it again gives the same result

thus ,sep 6 4:25pm

calendar is a Calendar object.Any help will be appreciated!!

Answer 1

I think Android literally needs \n to appear in the string, not an actual newline character. So, you need to escape the backslash in your Java string, so something like this:

String output = "Thus ,Sep 6" + "\\n" + "4:25pm";