Simplify replacement of date object with “today” and “yesterday” strings in Java static method

Question

I have following method that I would like to make shorter or faster if nothing else. Please all comments are welcome:

Bellow method takes a date object, formates i

Answer 1

this for today,yesterday,tomorrow

String formatDate(String fecha){

    String Rfecha=new String();
     SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
     //SimpleDateFormat formatter2 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE d MMM");
     SimpleDateFormat formatter2 = new SimpleDateFormat("E, d MMM ");
        try {
           Date hoy=new Date();

            Date date = formatter.parse(fecha);


            String pref="";
           Log.d("hoy long", ""+(hoy.getTime()/ (1000*60*60*24)));
           Log.d("date long", ""+ (date.getTime()/ (1000*60*60*24)));

           int ihoy=(int) (hoy.getTime()/ (1000*60*60*24));
           int idate=(int) (date.getTime()/ (1000*60*60*24));
           int dif=idate-ihoy;



           if(dif==0)
               pref="Today";
           if(dif==1)
               pref="Tomorrow";
           if(dif==-1)
               pref="Yesterday";

            Rfecha=pref+" "+formatter2.format(date);


        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    return Rfecha;
}