Parsing ISO 8601 Date/Time Strings in Android

Question:

You have received a standard ISO 8601 string from a web service, such as "2010-10-15T09:27:37Z". How can you convert this string into a Date/Time object in Android for further manipulation?

Answer:

Android provides a SimpleDateFormat class that allows you to parse and format date/time strings. Here's how you can use it to convert an ISO 8601 string to a Date object:

String dtStart = "2010-10-15T09:27:37Z";
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
try {
    Date date = format.parse(dtStart);
    System.out.println(date);  
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

This code uses the SimpleDateFormat object with a pattern that matches the ISO 8601 format of the string. The parse() method then converts the string into a Date object, which you can use for further processing.