How to format date and time in Android?

Question

How to format correctly according to the device configuration date and time when having a year, month, day, hour and minute?

Answer 1

SimpleDateFormat

I use SimpleDateFormat without custom pattern to get actual date and time from the system in the device's preselected format:

public static String getFormattedDate() {
    //SimpleDateFormat called without pattern
    return new SimpleDateFormat().format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());
}

returns:

• 13.01.15 11:45
• 1/13/15 10:45 AM
• ...