datepicker selected day of the week android

Question

I have date picker in my application and its works well .But I need selected day of week instead of date (i.e., if I select the date 23 I need to get day like "friday" instead of number). I used OnDateSetListener for click event.

    private DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener datePickerListener = new         DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() 
{       
    public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int selectedYear,
        int selectedMonth, int selectedDay) 
    {   

               }
       }

I need day in string(like monday(or) tuesday..) for selectedDay in above code

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

ρяσѕρєя K · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-20T07:25:52.670

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change your code as for getting day of week using SimpleDateFormat :

private DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener 
     datePickerListener = new  DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() 
{       
    public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int selectedYear,
        int selectedMonth, int selectedDay) 
    {   
      SimpleDateFormat simpledateformat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE");
      Date date = new Date(selectedYear, selectedMonth, selectedDay-1);
      String dayOfWeek = simpledateformat.format(date);
    }
}

edited Dec 20 '12 at 07:25

answered Dec 20 '12 at 07:05

ρяσѕρєя K

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@pros: i got the day of week in string format , but it gets previous day(such as saturday for friday,sunday for saturday). i use selectedDay-1 instead of selectedDay to get correct result.pls change it to mark as correct. – shivcena Dec 20 '12 at 07:17

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 20 '12 at 07:31

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This will give u the day names::

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE");
            Date d_name = new Date();
            String dayOfTheWeek = sdf.format(d_name);

answered Dec 20 '12 at 07:31

mainu

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 28 '16 at 15:01

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Don't use:

Date date = new Date(selectedYear, selectedMonth, selectedDay-1);

It is deprecated and will give wrong output in some cases. Check with 28-jan-2015 and 04-jul-1940, both are Thursday but it returns Friday for 04-jul-1940.

Use:

GregorianCalendar GregorianCalendar = new GregorianCalendar(year, monthOfYear, dayOfMonth-1);

int dayOfWeek=date.get(date.DAY_OF_WEEK);

The above method will return an integer value:

1 - Monday
2 - Tuesday
...
7 - Sunday

edited Jan 28 '16 at 15:01

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answered Jan 28 '16 at 14:46

seshu

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But why would you want the day of the week as an integer? – mystic cola Feb 15 '19 at 18:03

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 24 '21 at 09:03

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Use this


GregorianCalendar gregorianCalendar = new GregorianCalendar(year, month,dayOfMonth-1);
int week_number=gregorianCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);

You can use switch case to get week day in words.

answered May 24 '21 at 09:03

Stormbreaker

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