I have made two textView
in an xml
file where one textView
shows current date and another shows current time as text
.
Now, I have used the java Calendar.getInstance().getTime()
method to get the date & time information. But it is acting as a static view i.e. it is not changing the date & time like a digital clock.
Now I am trying to show the textViews
to show the current date & time in synchronization with device-system's date & time. That means, suppose now it is 11:59:59 PM
in the night and the date is 7th Sep, 2022
. Just after 1s
, my time textView
should show the time as 12:00:00 AM
and date should show as 8th Sep, 2022
. And it should continue to change the time after every 1s
like a digital clock. Last of all, there should not be any delay in between system dateTime & app dateTime i.e. perfectly synchronised.
How to do that??
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
TextView textDate, textClock;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
textDate = findViewById(R.id.textDate);
textClock = findViewById(R.id.textClock);
setDateTime();
}
private void setDateTime() {
Date c = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM, yyyy", Locale.getDefault());
SimpleDateFormat df_clock = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss a", Locale.getDefault());
String formattedDate = df.format(c);
String formattedClock = df_clock.format(c);
textDate.setText(formattedDate);
textClock.setText(formattedClock);
}
}
CodePudding user response:
There's already a TextClock
class in Android which you should be able to use. Try replacing your two TextView
s with these and set the formats to your patterns.
CodePudding user response:
You need to set up a background thread that will ask the UI to update itself every second.
I think something like this (but I don't know how accurate this will be)
private void blink() {
final Handler hander = new Handler();
new Thread(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
// off the UI
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
// back ot the UI
hander.post(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
// notify the UI here
blink();
}
});
}
}).start();
}