How can I compare a DatePicker date to the Calendar Date

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A simple question I hope. How can I compare the date entered into a DatePicker to the current Calendar date?

To explain, If I have the DatePicker date stored as a string, how could I compare that to the current date on the android system calendar?

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.dpresult);

textView1 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);

button1 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
button1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){

public void onClick(View v){         

   Intent intent = new Intent(datePickerResult.this, calander.class);

    startActivity(intent);
}
});

Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras(); 

year = extras.getInt("year"); 
day = extras.getInt("day"); 
month = extras.getInt("month");

textView1.setText(day+"");

} }

Are you using the standard DatePicker widget? That handler returns 3 ints, why convert that to a String? — aamit915, Oct 05 '12 at 12:44

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 22 '14 at 19:39

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for example you got the date like string from datepicker then

String sDate = "05-10-2012"; // suppose you create this type of date as string then

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");

Date date = sdf.parse(sDate);

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();

c.getTime().compareTo(date);

it depending on your string or how you can get? you can get all individually from datepicker then directly set in calendar instance

Calendar my = Calendar.getInstance();
my.set(year, month, day);

now compare

my.compareTo(Calendar.getInstance());

edited Apr 22 '14 at 19:39

Kanaiya Katarmal

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answered Oct 05 '12 at 12:32

Pratik

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@patrik, thanks, You say I can compare them directly from the datepicker so for example, if I have got the dates from the date picker as: getday, getmonth, getyear etc then how would I compare them? – J4C3N-14 Oct 05 '12 at 12:48
ok will post quick example now for getting the datepicker results, changed from the string to standard ints, so basically just need to compare those with the calendar, thanks – J4C3N-14 Oct 05 '12 at 12:59
I have posted some code can you give me an example of using the datepicker values directly? thanks – J4C3N-14 Oct 05 '12 at 14:37

MAC · Answer 2 · 2012-10-05T12:30:35.953

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You can convert your String to Date see this

and try this compareTo

date1.compareTo(date2);

edited Oct 05 '12 at 12:30

answered Oct 05 '12 at 12:24

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OP said that `If I have the DatePicker date stored as a string` – Lalit Poptani Oct 05 '12 at 12:26

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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read through a tutorial on dates here: http://www.mkyong.com/android/android-date-picker-example/

and this post on SO for a similar case: How to match or compare a date string with the date stored in sqlite in android?

If none of this helps then post some code and i'll edit my answer :)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered Oct 05 '12 at 12:24

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