Android: Convert date to milliseconds

Question

I used

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy, HH:mm");
String time = formatter.format(new Date());

to get t

Answer 1

String Date = "Tue Apr 25 18:06:45 GMT+05:30 2017"; 
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy");
try {
    Date mDate = sdf.parse(Date);
    long timeInMilliseconds = mDate.getTime();

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