title: Change DateFormat from DatePickerDialog using SimpleDateFormat in Android
body: <p>I'm new to Java and Android. I took the following code from different Tutorials on DatePickerDialog (mainly the official one).
  Now I want the selected date to be in a specific format ("EE, DD.MM.YY") and tried to do this with SimpleDateFormat but I don't understand where to get the selected date from since I "only" have year, month and day as arguments:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public class DatePickerFragment extends DialogFragment implements DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener {
  
      public Date date;
  
      @Override
      public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
          // Use the current time as the default values for the picker
          final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
          int year = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
          int month = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
          int day = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
          date = c.getTime();
  
          // Create a new instance of DatePickerDialog and return it
          return new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(), this, year, month, day);
  
      }
  
      public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int month, int day) {
  
          TextView textView = (TextView) getActivity().findViewById(R.id.textView_Date);
  
          String selectedDate = String.valueOf(day) + "." + String.valueOf(month) + "." + String.valueOf(year);
          textView.setText(selectedDate);
      }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So I tried to change the line</p>
  
  <pre><code>String selecteDate = ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>into something like</p>
  
  <pre><code>SimpleDateFormat simpledateformat = new SimpleDateFormat("EE, DD.MM.YY");
  String selectedDate = simpledateformat.format(date);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But since "date" is not the selected one but the current one and because the result of simpledateformat.format is probably not a String, it doesn't work. Can anyone tell me how to make it work? It doesn't need to be SimpleDateFormat though, that's just the way I thought it might work. Thanks a lot!</p>