How to format date and time in Android?

Question

How to format correctly according to the device configuration date and time when having a year, month, day, hour and minute?

Answer 1

Shortest way:

// 2019-03-29 16:11
String.format("%1$tY-%

%tR is short for %tH:%tM, < means to reuse last parameter(1$).

It is equivalent to String.format("%1$tY-%1$tm-%1$td %1$tH:%1$tM", Calendar.getInstance())

https://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Formatter.html