I have a
String s = "2020-02-22"`;
and I want to change it to Date so I can store it in my database which has has a column that does not accept anything but Date.
I tried using the LocalDate class but it's in API 26.
Any help would be appreciated.
Assume that you fetch the date from database and pass it to the below method:
public String formatDate(Date date){
SimpleDateFormat ff = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
return ff.format(date);
}
EDIT : based on input from Basil, you could try Android Desugaring to make use of Java 8+ functionality without the need of minimum API level. This would allow the use of LocalDate instead of the old java.util.Date class.
Using LocalDate you could parse a string to date as:
public LocalDate getDate(String dateString) {
return LocalDate.parse(dateString);
}
yyyy-MM-ddformat in the database as well?myPreparedStatement.setObject( … , LocalDate.parse( "2020-02-22" ) ) ;