chathurahettiarachchi/timeago

This will help to get how much time have passed. Useful in showing messages, notifications time and etc.

TimeAgo

I know what is mostly experianced problem when doing my development. So I decide to write this library to get how much time passed. Many of us having problem how to show how much time have passed, how to show it like in messages, notifications... Yeah, you looking at the right place. This will fix your issue.

####Let's take a look how to add this to your project

For the android project just include the following dependency inside you buil.gradle's depedency list.

Gradle

repositories {
  jcenter()
}

dependencies {
    ...
    compile 'com.chootdev:timezago:1.1.8'
}

if you using maven use following Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.chootdev</groupId>
  <artifactId>timezago</artifactId>
  <version>1.1.8</version>
  <type>pom</type>
</dependency>

After setup installing lib to your project you just need only to calls it using just two lines of code. It will return you a string with the resuls.

Usage

TimeAgo timeAgo = new TimeAgo();
String result = timeAgo.getTimeAgo(YOUR_PAST_DATE);

TimeAgo timeAgo = new TimeAgo().locale(CONTEXT).with(CUSTOM_DATE_FORMAT);
String result = timeAgo.getTimeAgo(YOUR_CUSTOM_PAST_DATE);

Limitations

• Currently not supporting for custom date formats. supports for ISO foramt and dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss only.
• Some parts like reducing time from your input date need to manage by you, and i was planning to add those line in future too.

Output patterns

• Below 1min - Right now
• 1min - 1h - returns like 20 minutes
• 1h - 24h - time eg: 12.34pm
• 1d - 1w - 1 week ago
• 1w - 4w - 1 week ago, 2 weeks ago 3 weeks ago
• 1m > - date

Screenshot

Changelog

• 1.1.8
  • Format changes
• 1.1.7
  • Added ru localization, changed min API from 16 to 9, custom date format
• 1.1.6
  • Fixed grammer issues
• 1.1.5
  • Stable the release
• 1.1.0
  • Fixed crashing for ISO date format
• 1.0.0
  • Initial release

Author

Chathura Hettiarachchi, [email protected]

Checkout my other contributions, https://github.com/ChathuraHettiarachchi?tab=repositories

License

Copyright 2016 Chathura Hettiarachchi

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

timeago's Issues

NullPointerException: when using Firebase Timestamp toDate()

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.String android.content.Context.getString(int)' on a null object reference
at com.choota.dev.ctimeago.TimeAgo.getTimeAgo(TimeAgo.java:77)

Request International Strings and Formatted

Better to use formatting in strings https://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Formatter.html

Right now
1 minute ago
5 minutes ago
1 hour ago
5 hours ago
Yesterday
2 days ago
1 week ago
Two weeks ago

In spanish
Ahora mismo
"Hace 1 minuto
Hace 5 minutos
Hace 1 hora
Hace 5 horas
Ayer
Hace 2 días
Hace 1 semana
Hace 2 semanas

What is use of calling difference while you context is null ???

What about android.text.format.DateUtils?

You can use DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString() directly, with i18n and without any extra dependency.

NullPointerException in TimeAgo.java (1.1.8)

You're checking whether the context is null and then still continue to make use of it even though it is null.

public String getTimeAgo(Date startDate) {

        //  date counting is done till todays date
        Date endDate = dateTimeNow;

        //  time difference in milli seconds
        long different = endDate.getTime() - startDate.getTime();

        if (context==null) {
            if (different < MINUTE_MILLIS) {
                return context.getResources().getString(R.string.just_now);
            } else if (different < 2 * MINUTE_MILLIS) {
                return context.getResources().getString(R.string.a_min_ago);
            } else if (different < 50 * MINUTE_MILLIS) {
                return different / MINUTE_MILLIS + context.getString(R.string.mins_ago);
            } else if (different < 90 * MINUTE_MILLIS) {
                return context.getString(R.string.a_hour_ago);
            } else if (different < 24 * HOUR_MILLIS) {
                timeFromData = timeFormat.format(startDate);
                return timeFromData;
            } else if (different < 48 * HOUR_MILLIS) {
                return context.getString(R.string.yesterday);
            } else if (different < 7 * DAY_MILLIS) {
                return different / DAY_MILLIS + context.getString(R.string.days_ago);
            } else if (different < 2 * WEEKS_MILLIS) {
                return different / WEEKS_MILLIS + context.getString(R.string.week_ago);
            } else if (different < 3.5 * WEEKS_MILLIS) {
                return different / WEEKS_MILLIS + context.getString(R.string.weeks_ago);
            } else {
                pastDate = dateFormat.format(startDate);
                return pastDate;
            }
        } else {
            if (different < MINUTE_MILLIS) {
                return context.getResources().getString(R.string.just_now);
            } else if (different < 2 * MINUTE_MILLIS) {
                return context.getResources().getString(R.string.a_min_ago);
            } else if (different < 50 * MINUTE_MILLIS) {
                return different / MINUTE_MILLIS + context.getString(R.string.mins_ago);
            } else if (different < 90 * MINUTE_MILLIS) {
                return context.getString(R.string.a_hour_ago);
            } else if (different < 24 * HOUR_MILLIS) {
                timeFromData = timeFormat.format(startDate);
                return timeFromData;
            } else if (different < 48 * HOUR_MILLIS) {
                return context.getString(R.string.yesterday);
            } else if (different < 7 * DAY_MILLIS) {
                return different / DAY_MILLIS + context.getString(R.string.days_ago);
            } else if (different < 2 * WEEKS_MILLIS) {
                return different / WEEKS_MILLIS + context.getString(R.string.week_ago);
            } else if (different < 3.5 * WEEKS_MILLIS) {
                return different / WEEKS_MILLIS + context.getString(R.string.weeks_ago);
            } else {
                pastDate = dateFormat.format(startDate);
                return pastDate;
            }
        }
    }

I took the liberty to report the issue but otherwise I had since switched to PrettyTime

Falied to transform artifact

Hello, I am getting this error after attempting to import the project by adding "Implementation 'com.chootdev.timezago:1.1.8' into my app level gradle file: ERROR: Unable to resolve dependency for ':app@debugAndroidTest/compileClasspath': Failed to transform artifact 'timezago.aar (com.chootdev:timezago:1.1.8)' to match attributes {artifactType=jar} I have not found any information regarding this error online. Clicking on "Show details" doesn't work. Do any of you know what the problem is?