set day of the week when a date is selected from a date time picker android

Question

Does anyone know how to set the day of the week when a date is selected from a date time picker?

I currently have the following to set the date but I also require the day e.g Mon, Tues:

private DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener mDateSetListener = new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {

        public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int monthOfYear,
                int dayOfMonth) {
            mYear = year;
            mMonth = monthOfYear;
            mDay = dayOfMonth;
            // calendar.set(mYear, mMonth, mDay);

        }
    };

private void setDateInEditText() {

    StringBuilder dateTime = new StringBuilder (mDay)
            .append("-").append(mMonth + 1).append("-").append(mYear)
            .append(" ").append(pad(mHour)).append(":")
            .append(pad(mMinute));

    datatableEditText.setText("");
    datatableEditText.setText(dateTime);

}

I don't want to set the current day I want to set the day of the date selected.

Many thanks in advance.

Possible duplicate of [Android: how to get the current day of the week (Monday, etc...) in the user's language?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7651221/android-how-to-get-the-current-day-of-the-week-monday-etc-in-the-users-l) — bummi, Jan 28 '16 at 14:57

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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Checkout this answer on SO https://stackoverflow.com/a/7651306/1321873

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE");
Date d = new Date(mYear, mMonth, mDay);
String dayOfTheWeek = sdf.format(d);

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered Jun 26 '12 at 09:38

user1417430

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hi. i've tried that one. it gives me todays day. rather than the date selected – Tuffy G Jun 26 '12 at 09:42
Maybe you didn't notice how the date is created. Use the picked year, month and day to create the `Date` object. See my code snippet. – user1417430 Jun 26 '12 at 09:46

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 26 '12 at 09:41

here is a simple code . you can modify the code as you like to get the correct output

  Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(2012, Calendar.JUNE, 26);
  int dayOfWeek = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);

The day-of-week is an integer value where 1 is Sunday, 2 is Monday, ..., and 7 is Saturday

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 26 '12 at 09:44

You can get the day of the week from the Calendar object. For instance:

Calendar mycal = Calendar.getInstance();
mycal.set(mYear, mMonth, mDay);
int dayOfWeek = mycal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
String dayString;
switch(dayOfWeek) {
case Calendar.SUNDAY:
    dayString = "Sunday";
    break;
...
}
datatableEditText.setText(dayString);

set day of the week when a date is selected from a date time picker android

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