Encrypting String with MD5, then storing as String

Question

Hello.
I believe I have a way to do this but I want to verify that:
1) It is doing the action that I want
2) There is no easier/simpler way with less lines
What I am looking to do is take a String that is passed to the method, encrypt it using MD5 algorithm, and then store the result back into String form.
In the following code encyptedPassword is the String to-be encrypted and this.encryptedPassword is the String for where I would like to save the result.
try
            MessageDigest md=MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
            md.reset();
            md.update(encryptedPassword.getBytes());
            byte raw[]=md.digest();
            for(int x=0; x<raw.length;x++)
                this.encryptedPassword+=(char)raw[x];
        catch(NoSuchAlgorithmException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

Answer 1

You will have to hex-encode or base-64-encode the encrypted data. String is not a container for binary data, and encrypted data is binary data.