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

Here is the simplest way:

    SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss a", Locale.US);

    String time = df.format(new Date());

and If you are looking for patterns, check this https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html