datepicker selected day of the week android

Question

I have date picker in my application and its works well .But I need selected day of week instead of date (i.e., if I select the date 23 I need to get day like \"friday\" ins

Answer 1

Don't use:

Date date = new Date(selectedYear, selectedMonth, selectedDay-1);

It is deprecated and will give wrong output in some cases. Check with 28-jan-2015 and 04-jul-1940, both are Thursday but it returns Friday for 04-jul-1940.

Use:

GregorianCalendar GregorianCalendar = new GregorianCalendar(year, monthOfYear, dayOfMonth-1);

int dayOfWeek=date.get(date.DAY_OF_WEEK); 

The above method will return an integer value:

• 1 - Monday
• 2 - Tuesday
• ...
• 7 - Sunday

Answer 2

This will give u the day names::

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE");
            Date d_name = new Date();
            String dayOfTheWeek = sdf.format(d_name);

Answer 3

change your code as for getting day of week using SimpleDateFormat :

private DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener 
     datePickerListener = new  DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() 
{       
    public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int selectedYear,
        int selectedMonth, int selectedDay) 
    {   
      SimpleDateFormat simpledateformat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE");
      Date date = new Date(selectedYear, selectedMonth, selectedDay-1);
      String dayOfWeek = simpledateformat.format(date);
    }
}