How to convert Japanese Era date-String to Western date in Android?

Asked Oct 25 '18 at 01:19

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In Android i have to parse a Date string("平成30年10月 24日") having Japanese Era to western date for comparison.Can anyone help in how to do this?

I have tried this to run in Android Studio and it is working fine:

  DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("GGGGyy年MM月 dd日", new Locale("ja", "JP", "JP"));
  System.out.println( format.parse("平成30年10月 24日"));
  //output:Wed Oct 24 00:00:00 JST 2018

But when i tried in the mobile device i am getting Unparseable date Exception.

Minimum api level for projects in Android Studio is 19.

This is not the duplicate question with: Japanese Date Validation - Comparison

Here I want to parse the Japanese String Date.

edited Oct 25 '18 at 03:13

asked Oct 25 '18 at 01:19

NullPointer

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Hint: get ready for next year. – Scary Wombat Oct 25 '18 at 01:25
see also http://javazuki.com/articles/japanese-date-introduction.html – Scary Wombat Oct 25 '18 at 01:28
@ScaryWombat-Thanks..I know to get it in Java8 but struggling with Android where *Minimum api level for projects in Android Studio is 19* – NullPointer Oct 25 '18 at 01:31
Have you seen http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4j/com/ibm/icu/util/JapaneseCalendar.html – Scary Wombat Oct 25 '18 at 01:41
Also there is the three10 backport http://threeten.sourceforge.net/apidocs-2012-10-25/javax/time/chrono/JapaneseEra.html – Scary Wombat Oct 25 '18 at 01:42
@ScaryWombat- **chrono** does not support on api level-19 so i can not compile application – NullPointer Oct 25 '18 at 01:48
Could always roll your own, Naruhito is still young ;-) – Scary Wombat Oct 25 '18 at 01:56
Still Looking for Answer... – NullPointer Oct 30 '18 at 01:56

How to convert Japanese Era date-String to Western date in Android?

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