Date formatting based on user locale on android

Question

I want to display a date of birth based on the user locale. In my application, one of my fields is the date of birth, which is currently in the format dd/mm/yyyy

Answer 1

To change the date format according to the locale, the following code worked to me:

    String dateOfBirth = "26/02/1974";
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
    Date date = null;
    try {
        date = sdf.parse(dateOfBirth);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        // handle exception here !
    }

    String myString = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT).format(date);

Then when you change the locale, the date format will change based on it. For more information about the dates patterns: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/format/dateFormat.html