Date input from EditText

Question

I'm trying to input date values from an editText, but i keep making error, what i should do?

    EditText DataI = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.DataI);
    EditText DataF = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.DataF);   

        calendar1.setTime(DataI);
        calendar2.setTime(DataF);

Answer 1

use:

SimpleDateFormat format=new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
calendar1.setTime(format.parse(DataI.getText().toString());
calendar2.setTime(format.parse(DataF.getText().toString());

Answer 2

There are components in Android API that're created for date-time input:

Read here

I think it's more appropriate to use the than an EditText