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 get the date format pattern you can do :

Format dateFormat = android.text.format.DateFormat.getDateFormat(getApplicationContext());
String pattern = ((SimpleDateFormat) dateFormat).toLocalizedPattern();

After that, you can format your input as per the pattern.