help with date in kotlin please!!! :(

Question

i'm new programming :(

i want that my apk gets the date to make with it a search in a database. for example, today is 6th october, so my apk has to get the date (2020-10-06) and get the information i have in my database with 2020-10-06 as primary key....... i hope you can understand me... my english is a bit poor 😅 thank u!!!

Answer 1

Android kotlin
To format our date to different formats we can use LocalDate‘s format() method and supply to it our custom format using DateTimeFormatter:

var formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd-MMMM-yyyy")

var formattedDate = date.format(formatter)

This outputs a nicely formatted date:

assertThat(formattedDate).isEqualTo("31-December-2018"