Time ago for Android/java [closed]

Question

I am newbie to java and android. One of my android news app i am displaying the time as "7 August 2014, 8:20 am"

But I need to display it like:

5 mins ago     1 hour ago     2 days ago 

Found many libraries such us pretty time, joda. But i dont know how to add it to my android app. Even this link https://stackoverflow.com/a/13018647/2020685 show me. But how to pass my date and time into it.

Any simple code to do it.

Thanks

Answer 1

What you want to display is called as the Relative time display. Android provides methods to display time relative to your current time. You don't have to use any third party library just for this purpose.

You can use

DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString(long time, long now, long minResolution) 

Refer docs Here

eg.

DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString(your_time_in_milliseconds, current_ time_in_millisecinds,DateUtils.MINUTE_IN_MILLIS); 

UPDATE1:

You can try following to pass your date and get the milliseconds for it.

public static long getDateInMillis(String srcDate) {     SimpleDateFormat desiredFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(         "d MMMM yyyy, hh:mm aa");      long dateInMillis = 0;     try {         Date date = desiredFormat.parse(srcDate);         dateInMillis = date.getTime();         return dateInMillis;     } catch (ParseException e) {         Log.d("Exception while parsing date. " + e.getMessage());         e.printStackTrace();     }      return 0;     } 

Hope it helps you.

Answer 2

Create the below logic:

Convert your time to seconds, get the diff ( delta ) from current file :

1. % it by 3600*365
   • if the result > 0 then display year(s) ago
2. else % it by 3600 * 30
   • if the result > 0 then display month(s) ago
3. else % it by 3600 * 7
   • if the result > 0 then display week(s) ago
4. else % it by 3600
   • if the result > 0 then display day(s) ago
5. else % it by 3600 / 24
   • if the result > 0 then display hour(s) ago
6. else % it by 60,
   • if the result > 0 then display minute(s) ago

NOTE: % means mod (modulus operation)