Display the current time and date in an Android application

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

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This would give the current date and time   public String getCurrDate         String dt      Date cal   Calendar getInstance   getTime        dt   cal toLocaleString        return dt

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Use   Calendar c   Calendar getInstance     int seconds   c get Calendar SECOND   int minutes   c get Calendar MINUTE   int hour   c get Calendar HOUR   String time   hour         minutes         seconds    int day   c get Calendar DAY OF MONTH   int month   c get Calendar MONTH   int year   c get Calendar YEAR   String date   day         month         year      Assuming that you need date and time in a separate    textview named txt date and txt time   txt date setText date   txt time setText time

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The obvious choices for displaying the time are the AnalogClock View and the DigitalClock View   For example  the following layout    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt LinearLayout     xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  fill parent       android orientation  vertical  gt        lt AnalogClock         android layout width  fill parent           android layout height  wrap content   gt        lt DigitalClock          android layout width  fill parent           android layout height  wrap content           android gravity  center           android textSize  20sp   gt   lt  LinearLayout gt    Looks like this

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Actually  you re best off with the TextClock widget  It handles all of the complexity for you and will respect the user s 12 24hr preferences  http   developer android com reference android widget TextClock html

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String currentDateandTime   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss   format new Date     Toast makeText getApplicationContext    currentDateandTime  Toast LENGTH SHORT  show

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Try the below code   SimpleDateFormat dateFormat   new SimpleDateFormat                                       yyyy MM dd HH mm ss     Calendar cal   Calendar getInstance    System out println  time   gt      dateFormat format cal getTime       String time str   dateFormat format cal getTime      String   s   time str split        for  int i   0  i  lt  s length  i           System out println  date    gt      s i       int year sys   Integer parseInt s 0  split      0    int month sys   Integer parseInt s 0  split      1    int day sys   Integer parseInt s 0  split      2     int hour sys   Integer parseInt s 1  split      0    int min sys   Integer parseInt s 1  split      1     System out println  year sys    gt      year sys   System out println  month sys    gt      month sys   System out println  day sys    gt      day sys    System out println  hour sys    gt      hour sys   System out println  min sys    gt      min sys

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To get current Time Date just use following code snippet    To use Time   SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormatTime   new SimpleDateFormat  HH mm   Locale getDefault     String strTime   simpleDateFormatTime format now getTime       To use Date   SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormatDate   new SimpleDateFormat  E  MMM dd  yyyy   Locale getDefault         String strDate   simpleDateFormatDate format now getTime       and you are good to go

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To display the current date function   Calendar c   Calendar getInstance     SimpleDateFormat df   new SimpleDateFormat  dd-MMM-yyyy    String date   df format c getTime     Date setText date     You must want to import     import java text SimpleDateFormat    import java util Calendar    You must want to use  TextView Date  Date    TextView  findViewById R id Date

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If you wish to work with date time in android I recommend you to use ThreeTenABP which is a version of java time   package  available starting from API 26 on android  shipped with Java 8 available as a replacement for java util Date and java util Calendar    LocalDate localDate   LocalDate now    DateTimeFormatter formatter   DateTimeFormatter ofLocalizedDate FormatStyle MEDIUM   String date   localDate format formatter   textView setText date

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Simply copy this code and hope this works fine for you   Calendar c   Calendar getInstance    SimpleDateFormat sdf   new SimpleDateFormat  dd MMMM yyyy HH mm ss a    String strDate   sdf format c getTime

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In case you want a single line of code   String date   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss   format Calendar getInstance   getTime       The result is  2016-09-25 16 50 34

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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

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My own working solution   Calendar c   Calendar getInstance     String sDate   c get Calendar YEAR     -     c get Calendar MONTH     -    c get Calendar DAY OF MONTH       at     c get Calendar HOUR OF DAY           c get Calendar MINUTE     Hope this helps

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From How to get full date with correct format    Please  use  android text format DateFormat getDateFormat Context context  android text format DateFormat getTimeFormat Context context    to get valid time and date formats in sense of current user settings  12 24 time format  for example    import android text format DateFormat   private void some         final Calendar t   Calendar getInstance        textView setText DateFormat getTimeFormat this  Context    format t getTime

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Here is the code which worked for me  Please try this  It is a simple method which takes time and date from a system call  public static String getDatetime         Calendar c   Calendar  getInstance        System out println  quot Current time   gt   quot  c getTime         SimpleDateFormat df   new SimpleDateFormat  quot yyyy-MM-dd HH mms quot        String formattedDate   df format c getTime         return formattedDate

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String formattedDate   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss   format Calendar getInstance   getTime        Use formattedDate as your String filled with the date  In my case  mDateButton setText formattedDate

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public class XYZ extends Activity            Called when the activity is first created          Override     public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState             setContentView R layout main            Calendar c   Calendar getInstance            System out println  Current time   gt    c getTime              SimpleDateFormat df   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss            String formattedDate   df format c getTime                formattedDate have current date time         Toast makeText this  formattedDate  Toast LENGTH SHORT  show               Now we display formattedDate value in TextView         TextView txtView   new TextView this           txtView setText  Current Date and Time     formattedDate           txtView setGravity Gravity CENTER           txtView setTextSize 20           setContentView txtView

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SimpleDateFormat format   new SimpleDateFormat  dd MM yyyy    Calendar c   Calendar getInstance    Date date   Calendar getInstance   getTime    String sDate   format format date    31-12-9999 int mYear   c get Calendar YEAR    9999 int mMonth   c get Calendar MONTH   mMonth   mMonth   1   12 int hrs   c get Calendar HOUR OF DAY    24 int min   c get Calendar MINUTE    59 String AMPM  if  c get Calendar AM PM     0        AMPM    AM     else       AMPM    PM

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For Show Current Date and Time on Textview          For Show Date     String currentDateString   DateFormat getDateInstance   format new Date            textView is the TextView view that should display it     textViewdate setText currentDateString           For Show Time     String currentTimeString   DateFormat getTimeInstance   format new Date            textView is the TextView view that should display it     textViewtime setText currentTimeString     Check full Code Android     Display the current date and time in an Android Studio Example with source code

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Okay  not that hard as there are several methods to do this  I assume you want to put the current date  amp  time into a TextView   String currentDateTimeString   java text DateFormat getDateTimeInstance   format new Date         textView is the TextView view that should display it textView setText currentDateTimeString     There is more to read in the documentation that can easily be found here   There you ll find more information on how to change the format used for conversion

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You Can try this way  Calendar calendar   Calendar getInstance    SimpleDateFormat mdformat   new SimpleDateFormat  HH mm ss    String strDate    Current Time       mdformat format calendar getTime

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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

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public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState        super onCreate savedInstanceState        setContentView R layout main       Thread myThread   null       Runnable runnable   new CountDownRunner        myThread  new Thread runnable          myThread start        public void doWork         runOnUiThread new Runnable             public void run                 try                  TextView txtCurrentTime   TextView findViewById R id lbltime                       Date dt   new Date                        int hours   dt getHours                        int minutes   dt getMinutes                        int seconds   dt getSeconds                        String curTime   hours         minutes         seconds                      txtCurrentTime setText curTime                catch  Exception e                           class CountDownRunner implements Runnable          Override     public void run                 while  Thread currentThread   isInterrupted                     try                   doWork                        Thread sleep 1000                     catch  InterruptedException e                            Thread currentThread   interrupt                     catch Exception e

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