Question

In my application i have edit text that will show the current date and time initially . If i change the date to some other date and when i tried to use gettext() i am still getting the current date. can anyone help. This is my code to set initial value in edit text

TaskTime = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.txtTaskTime);
        Date date = new Date();
        java.text.DateFormat dateFormat =    android.text.format.DateFormat.getDateFormat(getApplicationContext());
        TaskDate.setText(dateFormat.format(date));

Answer 1

Yes, you can get the current date because , Date date = new Date(); this function always returns the current date .

So you need to use the Calendar object to get the current date and time .

Example

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat);
String strDate = sdf.format(cal.getTime());

Here in dateFormat you have to declare your date format . dateFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy" like .