I struggled almost for an entire day trying to access and manipulate dates for my app. If I use date class, many of the methods show warning that they are deprecated. I took the help of simple date format and tried showing month and date. But some how the output was always wrong. So, if you need to access dates, set a date to current date or to any other particular date and also read dates from a edit text, you should ideally use 3 classes viz Calendar, Date and SimpleDateFormat. First create a Calendar object and initialize it with current date. Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); Now to convert this to Date object use getTime() method. Date someDate = cal.getTime();//this returns a date object. Now to get a string representation of this date use SimpleDateFormat class SimpleDateFormat dtFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM...