format date in android xml code example

Example 1: date format in android

startTime = "2013-02-27 21:06:30";
StringTokenizer tk = new StringTokenizer(startTime);
String date = tk.nextToken();  
String time = tk.nextToken();

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss");
SimpleDateFormat sdfs = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm a");
Date dt;
try {    
    dt = sdf.parse(time);
    System.out.println("Time Display: " + sdfs.format(dt)); // <-- I got result here
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Example 2: date format in android

String date="Mar 10, 2016 6:30:00 PM";
SimpleDateFormat spf=new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss aaa");
Date newDate=spf.parse(date);
spf= new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy");
date = spf.format(newDate);
System.out.println(date);