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Harsha M V
Harsha M V

Reputation: 54949

Android DatePicker display Month name

I am trying use Date Picker and on Select i want to display the date in the following format

[Month name] [date], [year]

    final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
    mYear = c.get(Calendar.YEAR)-13;
    mMonth = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
    mDay = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

that gives Month as a number. How to get the name of the month instead of number.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 16339

Answers (6)

Yashwanth Kumar
Yashwanth Kumar

Reputation: 29121

public static final String[] MONTHS = {"Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"};

use an array and get the String by MONTHS[monthNumber].

Upvotes: 23

Rafael Estrela
Rafael Estrela

Reputation: 31

After getting the year, month and day, you can format your date this way:

DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM);

DateFormat.MEDIUM makes the date displayed as Jan 12, 1952, in example. If you want to display the month's full name, you can use DateFormat.LONG.

Upvotes: 2

Rafael Estrela
Rafael Estrela

Reputation: 31

After getting the year, month and day, you can format your date this way:

DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM);

DateFormat.MEDIUM makes the date displayed as Jan 12, 1952, in example. If you want to display the month's full name, you can use DateFormat.LONG.

This is the easiest way, in my opinion.

Upvotes: 1

pajus_cz
pajus_cz

Reputation: 1321

Try this:

  final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
  c.getDisplayName(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.LONG, Locale.getDefault());

output will be January if Month == 1; Or you can use this

  c.getDisplayName(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.SHORT, Locale.getDefault());

Then you get Jan

Upvotes: 7

alejandrocordon
alejandrocordon

Reputation: 356

Example:

//if or swith 

if (c.get(Calendar.MONTH)==(Calendar.FEBRUARY))  {

       // Do something like

       // String Month = "FEBRUARY";  


 }

Upvotes: 1

NickLH
NickLH

Reputation: 2645

Use a switch statement:

String monthName;
switch(mMonth){
    case Calendar.JANUARY:
        monthName = "January";
        break;
    case Calendar.FEBRUARY:
        monthName = "February";
        break;

etc.

Upvotes: 3

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