Best way to format a date relative to now on Android

Question

I am creating a feature in an Android app to get an arbitrary date (past, present or future) and find the difference relative to now.

Both my now and

Answer 1

I came here for an alternative but I can't find perfect rather than my code. So I shared here any improvements are welcome.

public String getCreatedAtRelative() {
    SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'", Locale.US);
    df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("IST"));
    CharSequence relative = null;
    try {
        relative = DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString(df.parse(createdAt).getTime(), new Date().getTime(),
                0L, DateUtils.FORMAT_ABBREV_ALL);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        Log.e("Parse Exception adapter", "created at", e);
    } catch (NullPointerException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    if (null == relative) {
        return createdAt;
    } else {
        return relative.toString().replace(".", " ");
    }
}