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Unable to get only the day of date from the date format?

How to get the date from the date format
dd/MM/yyyy
Example:
04/05/2015
I only need the date as 04.
Here is code snippet:
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date date = new Date();
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,1);
System.out.println(dateFormat.format(date));
How to solve this issue?

Use cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH).

You need to change pattern which shows to you desired data format:
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd");
instead of
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
UPDATE:
Java 1.8 has updated data and time API.
Here is snippet of code which I checked:
LocalDate lastAprilDay = LocalDate.of(2014, Month.APRIL, 30);
System.out.println("last april day: " + lastAprilDay);
LocalDate firstMay = lastAprilDay.plusDays(1);
System.out.println("should be first may day: " + firstMay);
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd");
String formatDate = formatter.format(firstMay);
System.out.println("formatted date: " + formatDate);
Output:
last april day: 2014-04-30
should be first may day: 2014-05-01
formatted date: 01
For more info see Java documentations to this classes:
LocalDate
DateTimeFormatter

Simply change DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); to DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd");
or use cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

Formatting java.sql.Date to yyyyMMdd

I am using the below code
#SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
Date d = new Date (2014,01,9);
System.out.println(d);
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
final String text = df.format(d);
System.out.println(text);
I am getting below output.
3914-02-09
39140209
Does any one know why there is 3914?
Thanks,
Mahesh

The javadoc for the constructor you're using java.sql.Date(int,int,int) reads (in part),
year - the year minus 1900; must be 0 to 8099. (Note that 8099 is 9999 minus 1900.)
so you should use (assuming you mean this year)
Date d = new Date (2015-1900,01,9);

From Java Docs,
Deprecated. As of JDK version 1.1, replaced by Calendar.set(year + 1900, month, date) or GregorianCalendar(year + 1900, month, date).
Allocates a Date object and initializes it so that it represents midnight, local time, at the beginning of the day specified by the year, month, and date arguments.
Parameters:
year the year minus 1900.
month the month between 0-11.
date the day of the month between 1-31.
Code
public static void main(String[] args) {
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
int year = 2014;
int month = 01;
int day = 9;
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, month - 1);
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, day);
java.sql.Date date = new java.sql.Date(cal.getTimeInMillis());
System.out.println(sdf.format(date));
}
output
2014-01-09

Calendar offset issue

I need to get the month and day of today's date and offset dates. This is how I do it:
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 0);
Date today = calendar.getTime();
System.out.println(today);
Output:
Wed Aug 27 15:07:35 CEST 2014
Two things, I need the month and the day to be numeric, like 8/27. I understand how to do that with today's date like so:
int day = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
int month = calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH);
String a = String.valueOf(day);
String b = String.valueOf(month);
System.out.println(b +"/" + a);
My issue is that I might need to add an offset to that date, if I want tomorrows date for example. Is there a way to do that because converting Wed Aug 27.... to 8/27 would just be a pain. Thanks

Use simple date format:
Something like:
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 1);
Date today = calendar.getTime();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss");
System.out.println(sdf.format(today));

DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd");
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
String calAsString = formatter.format(cal.getTime());
System.out.println(calAsString);
// Now for tomorrow's date:
int offset = 1;
cal.add(Calendar.DATE, offset);
calAsString = formatter.format(cal.getTime());
System.out.println(calAsString);

Use the Calendar to add a value to the day:
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,1)

Trying to get number of days in specific month using Calendar object

I'm trying to write a Calendar in java that outputs an html web page with a Calendar inside of a table, but I've run into a problem when trying to get the number of days in a specific month during a specific year.
This is the bit of code I'm using:
//accept input from command prompt in form of MONTH, DAY, YEAR
String date = args[0];
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM dd, yyyy");
Date convertedDate = new Date();
try
{
convertedDate = df.parse(date);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.out.print(e);
}
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(convertedDate);
year = cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
month = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
day = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
//get number of days in month
int numDays, startMonth;
numDays = cal.getActualMaximum(DAY_OF_MONTH);
and I'm getting an error from that last line that reads:
error: cannot find symbol and it points to the DAY_OF_MONTH variable.
How can I resolve this?

Use Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH:
numDays = cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
It's a static field on the Calendar class.

Android : date format in a String

I have a problem to sort date because of the format of these dates.
I obtain the date :
final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
mYear = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
mMonth = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
mDay = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
And I build a String with these values.
dateRappDB = (new StringBuilder()
.append(mYear).append(".")
.append(mMonth + 1).append(".")
.append(mDay).append(" ")).toString();
The problem is that if the month is for example February, mMonth value is 2. So dates with months like October (10) comes before in my list.
What I need is that month and day are formated like MM and dd. But I don't know how to do it in my case.
EDIT :
I solved the problem by using a DateFormat like said above.
I replaced this :
dateRappDB = (new StringBuilder()
.append(mYear).append(".")
.append(mMonth + 1).append(".")
.append(mDay).append(" ")).toString();
By this :
Date date = new Date(mYear - 1900, mMonth, mDay);
dateFacDB = DateFormat.format("yyyy.MM.dd", date).toString();
And it works.
Thanks to all of you for your help :)

here is a simple way to convert Date to String :
SimpleDateFormat simpleDate = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
String strDt = simpleDate.format(dt);

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
Date now = calendar.getTime();
String timestamp = simpleDateFormat.format(now);
These might come in handy
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat =
new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSSSSZZZZZ");
this format is equal to --> "2016-01-01T09:30:00.000000+01:00"
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat =
new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZZ");
this format is equal to --> "2016-06-01T09:30:00+01:00"

here is the example for date format
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
Date date = new Date();
System.out.println("format 1 " + sdf.format(date));
sdf.applyPattern("E MMM dd yyyy");
System.out.println("format 2 " + sdf.format(date));

You need to sort dates, not strings. Also, have you heared about DateFormat? It makes all that appends for you.

If I understand your issue, you create a list of dates and since they're strings, they get arranged in a dictionary-order number-wise, which means you get october before february (10 before 2).
If I were you, I would store my results in a container where I control the insertion point (like an array list) or where I can control the sorting algorithm.