In Android, to get time and date you have to first create the object of calender then you can format it using simpledateformat class according to your need. At last it returns you a date and time as per your format in String return type.
Here is the sample code for getting date and time as string.
Code :
public String getDateTime() { Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(); SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss"); return df.format(c.getTime()); }