How to convert “2017-04-26T20:55:00.000Z” string to a Date in java android studio [duplicate]

Answer 1

You could use substring like so

String date = yourString.substring(0, 10);

This would pull all the characters from 0 to 10 in your String and save it as a new String.

In this case that would return "2017-04-26"

Answer 2

You can always use Java's DateFormat API for achieving this. Here is the code snippet that will help you to achieve whatever task you are looking for.

 DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX");
 Date date = dateFormat.parse("2017-04-26T20:55:00.000Z");//You will get date object relative to server/client timezone wherever it is parsed
 DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"); //If you need time just put specific format for time like 'HH:mm:ss'
 String dateStr = formatter.format(date);

You will get date object from which you can use it whichever way you would like to display using date formatter to format again.

Answer 3

In my opinion the cleanest way to do it :

• extract the date as described here : Java string to date conversion
• create a string containing the formatted date you want thanks to another DateFormat
• display it!