create table table_name(
id integer primary key autoincrement,
name varchar(450) not null,
date date)

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
Date tmpDate = dateFormat.parse("2014/01/12");
values.put(columnKey, tmpDate.toString());
db.insert("table_name", null, values);

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Sun Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2014" (at offset 0)

DatePicker tmpDatePicker = (DatePicker) dateDialog.findViewById(R.id.date_picker);
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date tmpDate = dateForma.parse("2014-01.12");
tmpDate.toString();

String input = "2014-01-12";
LocalDate localDate = new LocalDate( input );
String output = localDate.toString();

java.util.Date date = localDate.toDate();
String dateAsString = date.toString();

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date tmpDate = dateFormat.parse("2014-01-12");
dateFormat.format(tmpDate);