Display posts in descending posted order

Question

I\'m trying to test out Firebase to allow users to post comments using push. I want to display the data I retrieve with the following;

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Answer 1

I have a date variable (long) and wanted to keep the newest items on top of the list. So what I did was:

• Add a new long field 'dateInverse'
• Add a new method called 'getDateInverse', which just returns: Long.MAX_VALUE - date;
• Create my query with: .orderByChild("dateInverse")
• Presto! :p