Right way to format date with strings like today, yesterday, tomorrow etc

Question

I have a date textview. And my textview holds a date string like 2011.09.17. Well I still do want to have that but I also want to add some more user friendly info for some speci

Answer 1

For android Use JodaTime library in build.gradle file:

compile 'net.danlew:android.joda:2.9.9'

public static String formateddate(String date) {
    DateTime dateTime = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-MMM-yyyy").parseDateTime(date);
    DateTime today = new DateTime();
    DateTime yesterday = today.minusDays(1);
    DateTime twodaysago = today.minusDays(2);
    DateTime tomorrow= today.minusDays(-1);

    if (dateTime.toLocalDate().equals(today.toLocalDate())) {
        return "Today ";
    } else if (dateTime.toLocalDate().equals(yesterday.toLocalDate())) {
        return "Yesterday ";
    } else if (dateTime.toLocalDate().equals(twodaysago.toLocalDate())) {
        return "2 days ago ";
    } else if (dateTime.toLocalDate().equals(tomorrow.toLocalDate())) {
        return "Tomorrow ";
    } else {
        return date;
    }
}