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Will Tate
Will Tate

Reputation: 33509

Use of Calender.LONG in getDisplayNames() unresolved

I am trying to use getDisplayNames() on a Calendar object in my Android code. I have java.util.Calendar included and haven't had any troubles using any other public members of the Calendar class (i.e. Calendar.MONTH). Now I am attempting the following line...

mReminderCal.getDisplayName(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, Calendar.LONG, Locale.US)

And Eclipse is telling me Calendar.LONG or Calendar.SHORT don't exist.

According to the documentation here they should exist: http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Calendar.html#LONG

Any insight?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3650

Answers (3)

Will Tate
Will Tate

Reputation: 33509

I found the issue.

The getDisplayName() and associated Calendar.LONG and Calendar.SHORT are API level 9 only. I'm on API level 4 for backwards compatibility. I suppose, I will have to create my own function to translate the month enums into strings.

Upvotes: 4

ProjectJourneyman
ProjectJourneyman

Reputation: 3606

Try This (same for Gregorian or regular calendar). DateFormatSymbols is API level 1.

int month = date.get(GregorianCalendar.MONTH);  
String monthName = new DateFormatSymbols().getMonths()[month];

Upvotes: 6

Vladimir Ivanov
Vladimir Ivanov

Reputation: 43098

you can use 

mReminderCal.getDisplayName(java.util.Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, java.util.Calendar.LONG, Locale.US);

or static imports:

import static java.util.Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH;

It seems that you have already imported android's Calendar class, and in your line you try to get the fields from that class. So, you need to tell compiler explicitly what exact Calendar you use.

Upvotes: 2

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