How to do Date parsing and formating inside a bindview of cursor adapter in android

Question

I have saved my dates in my sqlite table like 2016-04-20 and I want my listview display them as 20/4/2016 and I use the following inside the bindview of a cursor adapter

String InitialDate=cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(cursor.getColumnName(2)));

SimpleDateFormat curFormater = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date dateObj = curFormater.parse(InitialDate);
SimpleDateFormat postFormater = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
String newDateStr = postFormater.format(dateObj);
textViewDate.setText(newDateStr);

but before I do anything the part of parse says Unhandled Exception java.text.ParseException I have import of

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

Answer 1

you should use try/catch block for parse method call because it can produce checked exception:

Date dateObj = null;
try {
    dateObj = curFormater.parse(InitialDate);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

or you can just rethrow this exception from your method (you should use throws ParseException clause in method signature)

via documentation:

Checked exceptions are subject to the Catch or Specify Requirement. All exceptions are checked exceptions, except for those indicated by Error, RuntimeException, and their subclasses.