title: TextView inputType date in Android - how does it work?
body: <p>I have not found this in any documentation, tutorial or question. Pretty much all tutorials concerned date picker, so I am confused about its functionality.</p>
  
  <p>I have TextView with inputType="date". How do I handle it? Does actually it do anything other than text field does?</p>
  
  <p>What are best practices?</p>
  
  <p>It only has set/get methods for String type. Am I right in assumption that I have to parse contents manually? And if putting in default value, having to format it myself too?</p>
  
  <p>Is there any definition of expected date format? Does it handle Locale differences (mm/dd/yyyy in some, dd/mm/yyyy in other)?</p>
  
  <p>Is there any validation?</p>
  
  <p>Or is it basically "do it yourself" type thing without much convenience?</p>