Display the current time and date in an Android ap

Question

How do I display the current date and time in an Android application?

Answer 1

You Can try this way

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat mdformat = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
String strDate = "Current Time : " + mdformat.format(calendar.getTime());

Answer 2

The obvious choices for displaying the time are the AnalogClock View and the DigitalClock View.

For example, the following layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <AnalogClock
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

    <DigitalClock 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:gravity="center" 
        android:textSize="20sp"/>
</LinearLayout>

Looks like this:

Answer 3

This would give the current date and time:

public String getCurrDate()
{
    String dt;
    Date cal = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
    dt = cal.toLocaleString();
    return dt;
}

Answer 4

If you want to get the date and time in a specific pattern you can use

Date d = new Date();
CharSequence s = DateFormat.format("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss", d.getTime());

Answer 5

String currentDateandTime = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").format(new Date());
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), currentDateandTime, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

Answer 6

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
int month=c.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1;
String sDate = c.get(Calendar.YEAR) + "-" + month+ "-" + c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) +
"T" + c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY)+":"+c.get(Calendar.MINUTE)+":"+c.get(Calendar.SECOND);

This will give date time format like 2010-05-24T18:13:00