How to check if time in day is between two times?

Question

In my app I create an object that represents a high school class. This object holds 2 Calendar objects that represents the class\'s start and stop time each day. When a user c

Answer 1

JDK 8 Date-Time APIs are a good approach to solving these kinds of issues. Instead of Calendar , use LocalTime to store the start and end time of the class.

LocalTime now = LocalTime.now(ZoneId.systemDefault());
LocalTime start = mList.get(a).getStartTime();
LocalTime end = mList.get(a).getEndTime();
if(now.isAfter(start) && now.isBefore(end)){
    //do something
}

For Android, you can use The ThreeTenABP project which adapts the java.time APIs for Android.