Apache commons-lang is almost ubiquitous. So what about this?

if (DateUtils.isSameDay(date1, date2)) {
    // it's same
} else if (date1.before(date2)) {
   // it's before
} else {
   // it's after
}

I solved this by comparing by timestamp:

    Calendar last = Calendar.getInstance();

    last.setTimeInMillis(firstTimeInMillis);

    Calendar current = Calendar.getInstance();

    if (last.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) != current.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)) {
        //not the same day
    }

I avoid to use Joda Time because on Android uses a huge space. Size matters. ;)

If you strictly want to use Date ( java.util.Date ), or without any use of external Library. Use this :

public Boolean compareDateWithoutTime(Date d1, Date d2) {
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
    return sdf.format(d1).equals(sdf.format(d2));
}

    Date today = new Date();
    Date endDate = new Date();//this
    endDate.setTime(endDate.getTime() - ((endDate.getHours()*60*60*1000) + (endDate.getMinutes()*60*1000) + (endDate.getSeconds()*1000)));
    today.setTime(today.getTime() - ((today.getHours()*60*60*1000) + (today.getMinutes()*60*1000) + (today.getSeconds()*1000)));

    System.out.println(endDate.compareTo(today) <= 0);

I am simply setting hours/minutes/second to 0 so no issue with the time as time will be same now for both dates. now you simply use compareTo. This method helped to find "if dueDate is today" where true means Yes.

If you are looking for a simple solution and yet you do not want to change the deprecated java.util.Date class from your project, you can just add this method to your project and continue your quest:

Using java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit

`

public boolean isSameDay(Date first, Date second) {
    long difference_In_Time = first.getTime() - second.getTime();
        // calculate difference in days
        long difference_In_Days = 
        TimeUnit
              .MILLISECONDS
              .toDays(difference_In_Time);
        if (difference_In_Days == 0) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

`

Implement it like:

`

Date first = ...;
Date second = ...;
if (isSameDay(first, second)) {
    // congratulations, they are the same
}
else {
   // heads up champ, they are not the same
}

`