Android time in iso 8601
If I have correctly understood your objective you can use directly the SimpleDateFormat
class.
Example code:
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ", Locale.UK);
String formattedDate = sdf.format(new Date());
You can see documentation in SimpleDateFormat
Regards.
API level 26 added support for many time and date classes from Java. So this solution can now also be applied: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25618897/3316651
// works with Instant
Instant instant = Instant.now();
System.out.println(instant.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_INSTANT));
// works with ZonedDateTime
ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.now();
System.out.println(zdt.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_INSTANT));
// example output
2014-09-02T08:05:23.653Z
Credits to JodaStephen.
Android doc: https://developer.android.com/reference/java/time/format/DateTimeFormatter.html#ISO_INSTANT