What is the easiest way to get the current day of the week in Android?

Question

What would be the easiest way to get the current day of the week in Android?

Answer 1

If you do not want to use Calendar class at all you can use this

String weekday_name = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE", Locale.ENGLISH).format(System.currentTimeMillis());

i.e., result is,

"Sunday"

Answer 2

Java 8 datetime API made it so much easier :

LocalDate.now().getDayOfWeek().name()

Will return you the name of the day as String

Output : THURSDAY

Answer 3

Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK)

or

new GregorianCalendar().get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);

Just the same as in Java, nothing particular to Android.

Answer 4

Here is my simple approach to get Current day

public String getCurrentDay(){

    String daysArray[] = {"Sunday","Monday","Tuesday", "Wednesday","Thursday","Friday", "Saturday"};

    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    int day = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);

    return daysArray[day];

}

Answer 5

As DAY_OF_WEEK in GregorianCalender class is a static field you can access it directly as foolows

int dayOfWeek = GregorianCalender.DAY_OF_WEEK;