How to get Date object in “YYYY-MM-DD” format in android

Question

I have a requirement that I need to compare two Dates. One Date will come from DB which is String in "YYYY-DD-MM" firm and I need to compare this String Date with current Date.

for this I am converting Date String into Date object.

Now I need current Date also in "YYYY-MM-DD" format and it should be Date object so that I can use.compareTo() method compare two dates..

Please help me how to do that...

Answer 1

 Date cDate = new Date();  String fDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(cDate);