Storing Date input values on Firebase

Question

So this is how my code looks like

cropref.child(mycrop.name).push({
                          cropname:mycrop.name,
                          croplocation:mycro         


        

Answer 1

You need to convert the date first in your Format. You can use SimpleDateFormatFormat for that.

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

Now you can easily format your date to this format

String mynewdate = sdf.format(mycrop.plantdate.getTime());

The Output for today would be:

2016-11-27

Of course you can reverse that back to a Calendar. I do it this way:

 public static Calendar fromStringtoCalendar(String datestring){
    int year =  Integer.valueOf(datestring.substring(0, 4));
    int month =  Integer.valueOf(datestring.substring(5, 7)) -1;
    int day =  Integer.valueOf(datestring.substring(8, 10));
    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    calendar.set(year, month, day);
    return calendar;
}