I have a string "2015-02-24", how can I get "day name like Monday or Mon" in android. I try to use the code below but failed.
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE");
Date d = new Date("2015-02-24");
String dayOfTheWeek = sdf.format(d);
String input_date_string="2015-02-24";
SimpleDateFormat dateformat=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date date;
try {
date = dateformat.parse(input_date_string);
DateFormat dayFormate=new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE");
String dayFromDate=dayFormate.format(date);
Log.d("asd", "----------:: "+dayFromDate);
} catch (ParseException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}