How to save and retrieve Date in SharedPreferences

Question

I need to save a few dates in SharedPreferences in android and retrieve it. I am building reminder app using AlarmManager and I need to save list o

Answer 1

You can do this:

SharedPreferences preferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(getActivity());
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss", Locale.US);

To save a date:

preferences .edit().putString("mydate", sdf.format(date)).apply();

To retrieve:

try{
    Date date = sdf.parse(preferences.getString("myDate", "defaultValue"));
    } catch (ParseException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
                               }

Hope it help.