Android Utililty Methods Date Format

List of utility methods to do Date Format

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Description

The list of methods to do Date Format are organized into topic(s).

Method

StringgetFormatTime(Date date)
get Format Time 
return getFormatDateTime(date, "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
StringgetFormatTomorrow(String format)
get Format Tomorrow 
return getFormatCurrentAdd(1, format);
StringgetFormatYestoday(String format)
get Format Yestoday 
return getFormatCurrentAdd(-1, format);
StringgetUniversalDateStamp(Date date)
Get current time stamp in universal format
Format: yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ
e.g.: 1999-09-09T13:10:40Z 
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(date);
return getUniversalDateStamp(cal);
StringgetUtcTimeStringFromDate(Date date)
Retrieves UTC time as string. 
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("HH':'mm':'ss");
dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("gmt"));
return dateFormat.format(date);
StringtimestampToISO8601(Date aDate)
timestamp To ISO 
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(
        "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");
return format.format(aDate);
StringtoDateString(Date value)
to Date String 
if (value != null) {
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
    return dateFormat.format(value);
} else {
    return "";
StringtoDateTimeString(Date value)
to Date Time String 
if (value != null) {
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
            "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
    dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
    return dateFormat.format(value);
} else {
    return "";
StringtoRelativeDateString(Date value)
to Relative Date String 
if (value != null) {
    String result = "";
    Date dateNow = new Date();
    if ((dateNow.getYear() == value.getYear())
            && (dateNow.getMonth() == value.getMonth())) {
        int daysApart = dateNow.getDate() - value.getDate();
        if (daysApart >= 28) {
            result = "4 weeks ago";
...
StringtoString(Date date, String format)
to String 
SimpleDateFormat outputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
return outputFormat.format(date);