Firebase TIMESTAMP to date and Time

Question

I am using firebase for my chat application. In chat object I am adding time stamp using Firebase.ServerValue.TIMESTAMP method.

I need to show the messa

Answer 1

First Of All Firebase.ServerValue.TIMESTAMP is not working anymore for me.

So for adding timestamp you have to use Firebase.database.ServerValue.TIMESTAMP

And the timestamp is in long millisecond format.To convert millisecond to simple dateformat .

Ex- dd/MM/yy HH:mm:ss

You can use the following code in java:

To get the timestamp value in string from the firebase database

String x = dataSnapshot.getValue (String.class);

The data is in string now. You can convert the string to long

long milliSeconds= Long.parseLong(x);

Then create SimpleDateFormat

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy HH:mm:ss");

Now convert your millisecond timestamp to ur sdf format

String dateAsString = sdf.format (milliSeconds);

After that you can parse it to ur Date variable

 date = sdf.parse (dateAsString);