Not able to convert the string to date on Android

Question

I have obtained a string from an API in form of 2017-04-23T19:47:39+00:00 How do i convert it into date of format \"2017-04-23T19:47:39-0000\"?

I tried the following but

Answer 1

Possibly you could try to set the locale,

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy", Locale.US);