Get value of day month from Date object in Android?

Question

By using this code :

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(\"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss\");
Date date = format.parse(dtStart);
return date;

Answer 1

to custom days of week you can use this function

public static String getDayFromDateString(String stringDate,String dateTimeFormat)
{
    String[] daysArray = new String[] {"saturday","sunday","monday","tuesday","wednesday","thursday","friday"};
    String day = "";

    int dayOfWeek =0;
    //dateTimeFormat = yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss
    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(dateTimeFormat);
    Date date;
    try {
        date = formatter.parse(stringDate);
        Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
        c.setTime(date);
        dayOfWeek = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK)-1;
        if (dayOfWeek < 0) {
            dayOfWeek += 7;
        }
        day = daysArray[dayOfWeek];
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return day;
}

dateTimeFormat for example dateTimeFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";