Is there something like TimeSpan in android development?

Question

I need to know if there is something like a timespan in android development?

in C# there is something like and I like to use it in two ways:

1. generate a

Answer 1

Dates in Java are awkward. Have a look at https://github.com/dlew/joda-time-android

Answer 2

Unfortunately, there's no TimeSpan like class yet natively available in Java, but you can achieve this with few lines of code.

Calendar startDate = getStartDate();
Calendar endDate = getEndDate();

long totalMillis = endDate.getTimeInMillis() - startDate.getTimeInMillis();
int seconds = (int) (totalMillis / 1000) % 60;
int minutes =  ((int)(totalMillis / 1000) / 60) % 60;
int hours = (int)(totalMillis / 1000) / 3600;

Answer 3

Android has DateUtils, the method "formatElapsedTime" does what you need if you give it the right input.

Answer 4

You can easily get the "TimeSpan" in milliseconds. To convert milliseconds to a formatted one, you can do a little fast and elegant calculation in your function like this,

public static String GetFormattedTimeSpan(final long ms) {
    long x = ms / 1000;
    long seconds = x % 60;
    x /= 60;
    long minutes = x % 60;
    x /= 60;
    long hours = x % 24;
    x /= 24;
    long days = x;

    return String.format("%d days %d hours %d minutes %d seconds", days, hours, minutes, seconds);
}

Answer 5

public long addSeconds(long dt,int sec) //method to add seconds in time  
{

    Date Dt = new Date(dt);
    Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss");
    sdf.setCalendar(cal);
    cal.setTimeInMillis(Dt.getTime());
    cal.add(Calendar.SECOND, sec);
    return cal.getTime().getTime();

} 

pass date and time in sec, it will return modified time...

Answer 6

You can use the Calendar class.

http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-date-time/java-util-calendar.html