title: Get Date of past 7days from current in android
body: <p>I am trying to fetch the date 7days prior to today's date.
  I am using SimpleDateFormat to fetch today's date.</p>
  
  <pre><code>SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please guide me through this</p>
  
  <p>Updated answer which I found most useful</p>
  
  <pre><code>SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
  String currentDateandTime = sdf.format(new Date());
  Date cdate=sdf.parse(currentDateandTime);
  Calendar now2= Calendar.getInstance();
  now2.add(Calendar.DATE, -7);
  String beforedate=now2.get(Calendar.DATE)+"/"+(now2.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1)+"/"+now2.get(Calendar.YEAR);
  Date BeforeDate1=sdf.parse(beforedate);
  cdate.compareTo(BeforeDate1);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thank you for you reply</p>