Get time of NTP-Server from Android App

Question

Dear android developers,

I'm trying to implement the sntpclient class in my application but it didn't work.

Class: http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/ext/com.google.android/android/4.0.3_r1/android/net/SntpClient.java

in my code I have the following lines:

public void onClickBtn(View v)
{
    SntpClient client = new SntpClient();
     if (client.requestTime("pool.ntp.org", 10)) {
         long now = client.getNtpTime() + SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - client.getNtpTimeReference();
         Toast.makeText(this, "Offset: " + now, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
     }
} 

I really don't know what the meaning of network timeout is in this case.

It would be great, when someone has any idea or tip for me.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You should put it in AsyncTask like this :

class GetNTPAsynctask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Boolean> {

@Override
        protected Boolean doInBackground(String... params) {
            private SntpClient sntpClient = new SntpClient();
            return sntpClient.requestTime("pool.ntp.org", 30000);
        }
}

Timeout: network timeout in milliseconds. So i use 30000 mean 30 seconds.