No, there is no better way.

Actually you have an error in your pattern. What you want is:

DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#.00"); 

Note the "00", meaning exactly two decimal places.

If you use "#.##" (# means "optional" digit), it will drop trailing zeroes - ie new DecimalFormat("#.##").format(3.0d); prints just "3", not "3.00".

One of the way would be using NumberFormat.

NumberFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("#0.00");     
System.out.println(formatter.format(4.0));

Output:

4.00

try this new DecimalFormat("#.00");

update:

    double angle = 20.3034;

    DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#.00");
    String angleFormated = df.format(angle);
    System.out.println(angleFormated); //output 20.30

Your code wasn't using the decimalformat correctly

The 0 in the pattern means an obligatory digit, the # means optional digit.

update 2: check bellow answer

If you want 0.2677 formatted as 0.27 you should use new DecimalFormat("0.00"); otherwise it will be .27

You can use the printf method, like so:

System.out.printf("%.2f", val);

In short, the %.2f syntax tells Java to return your variable (val) with 2 decimal places (.2) in decimal representation of a floating-point number (f) from the start of the format specifier (%).

There are other conversion characters you can use besides f:

• d: decimal integer
• o: octal integer
• e: floating-point in scientific notation

This is what BigDecimal is made for!

BigDecimal number = new BigDecimal(123.456);
// set 2 fraction digits
// Note that setScale() does not change the original, 
// but returns a new BigDecimal.
number = number.setScale(2, RoundingMode.DOWN);
// get string representation
String text = number.toPlainString();
// get double value
double dbl = number.doubleValue();

And use BigDecimal for other calculations as well if you can.