How to subtract X day from a Date object in Java?

In Java 8 you can do this:

Instant inst = Instant.parse("2018-12-30T19:34:50.63Z"); 

// subtract 10 Days to Instant 
Instant value = inst.minus(Period.ofDays(10)); 
// print result 
System.out.println("Instant after subtracting Days: " + value); 

I have created a function to make the task easier.

• For 7 days after dateString: dateCalculate(dateString,"yyyy-MM-dd",7);

• To get 7 days upto dateString: dateCalculate(dateString,"yyyy-MM-dd",-7);

public static String dateCalculate(String dateString, String dateFormat, int days) {
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    SimpleDateFormat s = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat);
    try {
        cal.setTime(s.parse(dateString));
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    cal.add(Calendar.DATE, days);
    return s.format(cal.getTime());
}

You can easily subtract with calendar with SimpleDateFormat

 public static String subtractDate(String time,int subtractDay) throws ParseException {


        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm", Locale.ENGLISH);
        cal.setTime(sdf.parse(time));
        cal.add(Calendar.DATE,-subtractDay);
        String wantedDate = sdf.format(cal.getTime());

        Log.d("tag",wantedDate);
        return wantedDate;

    }

You may also be able to use the Duration class. E.g.

Date currentDate = new Date();
Date oneDayFromCurrentDate = new Date(currentDate.getTime() - Duration.ofDays(1).toMillis());