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Android date format with Month

How to get the Android date format "7/25/2021" to July/25/2021

Here is the portion of the code

mDisplayDate is the Textview

mDisplayDate.setOnClickListener(view -> { Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();

        int year = cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
        int month = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
        int day = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

String dateLong = month + "/" + day+ "/" + year;

mDisplayDate.setText(dateLong);

Solution

  • The easiest way to do this is to use a switch case

    String monthStr = "";

switch(month) {
    case 1:
        monthStr = "January";
        break;
    case 2:
        monthStr = "February";
        break;
   // and else
}

String dateLong = monthStr + "/" + day+ "/" + year;