How can I get the date from EditText and then store it in the database on Android
I am using edittext for user input where the user has entered their date of birth. The edittext input type is Date and then I pass that date to the variable. This date is not passed to this variable and gives some error.
The code I am using is below
Edit dob=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.dob);
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat( "yyyy/MM/dd" );
String dob_var=sdf.format(dob.getText());
//dob_var=dob.getText().toString();
System.out.println(dob_var);
After that, I want to pass this date in the database, so what type should store this date in the database. My logarithm:
04-05 16:54:22.060: D/AndroidRuntime(3104): Shutting down VM
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.foursquaregame.in/com.foursquaregame.in.Astro_talk}: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at java.text.DateFormat.format(DateFormat.java:373)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at java.text.Format.format(Format.java:133)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at com.foursquaregame.in.Astro_talk.onCreate(Astro_talk.java:32)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)
04-05 16:54:22.146: E/AndroidRuntime(3104): ... 11 more
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Finally got it,
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); // Make sure user insert date into edittext in this format.
Date dateObject;
try{
String dob_var=(tx.getText().toString());
dateObject = formatter.parse(dob_var);
date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").format(dateObject);
time = new SimpleDateFormat("h:mmaa").format(dateObject);
}
catch (java.text.ParseException e)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
Log.i("E11111111111", e.toString());
}
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), date + time, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
Hope this helps you ...
Thank...
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First you need to convert the edittext string to date:
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
Date dob_var = sdf.parse(dob.getText());
now convert dob_var to standard sqlite date string:
DateFormat dateFormatISO8601 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String strDob = dateFormatISO8601.format(dob_var);
/* save strDob into database */
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