Android how to get the current day of the week Monday etc in the user s language

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I want to know what the current day of the week is  Monday  Tuesday     in the user s local language  For example   Lundi   Mardi  etc    if the user is French    I have read this post  it but it only returns an int  not a string with the day in the user s language  What is the easiest way to get the current day of the week in Android   More generally  how do you get all the days of the week and all the months of the year written in the user s language     I think that this is possible  as for example the Google agenda gives the days and months written in the user s local language   Thanks

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Try this       global declaration private TextView timeUpdate  Calendar calendar            timeUpdate    TextView  findViewById R id timeUpdate     initialize in onCreate               in onStart   calendar   Calendar getInstance      date format is    Date-Month-Year Hour Minutes am pm  SimpleDateFormat sdf   new SimpleDateFormat  dd-MMM-yyyy HH mm a      Date and time String currentDate   sdf format calendar getTime        Day of Name in full form like  Saturday   or if you need the first three characters you have to put  EEE  in the date format and your result will be  Sat   SimpleDateFormat sdf    new SimpleDateFormat  EEEE     Date date   new Date    String dayName   sdf  format date   timeUpdate setText      dayName         currentDate          The result is      happy coding

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Hers s what I used to get the day names  0-6 means monday - sunday    public static String getFullDayName int day        Calendar c   Calendar getInstance           date doesn t matter - it has to be a Monday        I new that first August 2011 is one  -      c set 2011  7  1  0  0  0       c add Calendar DAY OF MONTH  day       return String format   tA   c      public static String getShortDayName int day        Calendar c   Calendar getInstance        c set 2011  7  1  0  0  0       c add Calendar DAY OF MONTH  day       return String format   ta   c

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I just use this solution in Kotlin    var date   String   DateFormat format  EEEE dd-MMM-yyyy HH mm a    Date    as String

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selected date from calender SimpleDateFormat sdf   new SimpleDateFormat  dd-MMM-yyyy      Date and time String currentDate   sdf format myCalendar getTime        selcted day name SimpleDateFormat sdf    new SimpleDateFormat  EEEE    String dayofweek sdf  format myCalendar getTime     current date setText currentDate   lbl current date setText dayofweek    Log e  dayname   dayofweek

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Try this   int dayOfWeek   date get Calendar DAY OF WEEK     String weekday   new DateFormatSymbols   getShortWeekdays   dayOfWeek

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Sorry for late reply But this would work properly   daytext  textview findviewById R id day    Calender c Calender getInstance    SimpleDateFormat sd new SimpleDateFormat  EEEE    String dayofweek sd format c getTime       daytext setText dayofweek

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If you are using ThreetenABP date library bt Jake Warthon you can do   dayOfWeek getDisplayName TextStyle FULL  Locale getDefault     on your dayOfWeek instance  More at   https   github com JakeWharton ThreeTenABP https   www threeten org threetenbp apidocs org threeten bp format TextStyle html

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I know already answered but who looking for  Fri  like this   for Fri -  SimpleDateFormat sdf   new SimpleDateFormat  EEE    Date d   new Date    String dayOfTheWeek   sdf format d     and who wants full date string they can use 4E for Friday  For Friday-  SimpleDateFormat sdf   new SimpleDateFormat  EEEE    Date d   new Date    String dayOfTheWeek   sdf format d     Enjoy

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Use SimpleDateFormat to format dates and times into a human-readable string  with respect to the users locale   Small example to get the current day of the week  e g   Monday     SimpleDateFormat sdf   new SimpleDateFormat  EEEE    Date d   new Date    String dayOfTheWeek   sdf format d

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tl dr  String output        LocalDate now  ZoneId of   America Montreal                    getDayOfWeek                 getDisplayName  TextStyle FULL   Locale CANADA FRENCH       java time  The java time classes built into Java 8 and later and back-ported to Java 6  amp  7 and to Android include the handy DayOfWeek enum   The days are numbered according to the standard ISO 8601 definition  1-7 for Monday-Sunday   DayOfWeek dow   DayOfWeek of  1      This enum includes the getDisplayName method to generate a String of the localized translated name of the day   The Locale object specifies a human language to be used in translation  and specifies cultural norms to decide issues such as capitalization and punctuation   String output   DayOfWeek MONDAY getDisplayName  TextStyle FULL   Locale CANADA FRENCH       To get today   s date  use the LocalDate class  Note that a time zone is crucial as for any given moment the date varies around the globe    ZoneId z   ZoneId of   America Montreal     LocalDate today   LocalDate now  z    DayOfWeek dow   today getDayOfWeek    String output   dow getDisplayName  TextStyle FULL   Locale CANADA FRENCH       Keep in mind that the locale has nothing to do with the time zone two separate distinct orthogonal issues  You might want a French presentation of a date-time zoned in India  Asia Kolkata    Joda-Time  UPDATE  The Joda-Time project  now in maintenance mode  advises migration to the java time classes   The Joda-Time library provides Locale-driven localization of date-time values   DateTimeZone zone   DateTimeZone forID   America Montreal     DateTime now   DateTime now  zone     Locale locale   Locale CANADA FRENCH  DateTimeFormatter formatterUnJourQu  b  cois   DateTimeFormat forPattern   EEEE    withLocale  locale     String output   formatterUnJourQu  b  cois print  now     System out println  output      output         output  samedi     About java time  The java time framework is built into Java 8 and later  These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java util Date  Calendar   amp  SimpleDateFormat   The Joda-Time project  now in maintenance mode  advises migration to the java time classes   To learn more  see the Oracle Tutorial  And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations  Specification is JSR 310   Where to obtain the java time classes     Java SE 8 and SE 9 and later   Built-in   Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation  Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes   Java SE 6 and SE 7   Much of the java time functionality is back-ported to Java 6  amp  7 in ThreeTen-Backport   Android   The ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport  mentioned above  for Android specifically  See How to use ThreeTenABP

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To make things shorter You can use this   android text format DateFormat format  EEEE   date     which will return day of the week as a String

[java] Android: how to get the current day of the week (Monday, etc...) in the user's language?

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