“Time Since/Ago” Library for Android/Java [closed]

Answer 1

From jquery timeago plugin

This provides you more options and formats than the answers above.

public static Date currentDate() {
    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    return calendar.getTime();
}

public static String getTimeAgo(Date date, Context ctx) {

    if(date == null) {
        return null;
    }

    long time = date.getTime();

    Date curDate = currentDate();
    long now = curDate.getTime();
    if (time > now || time <= 0) {
        return null;
    }

    int dim = getTimeDistanceInMinutes(time);

    String timeAgo = null;

    if (dim == 0) {
        timeAgo = ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_term_less) + " " +  ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_term_a) + " " + ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_unit_minute);
    } else if (dim == 1) {
        return "1 " + ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_unit_minute);
    } else if (dim >= 2 && dim <= 44) {
        timeAgo = dim + " " + ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_unit_minutes);
    } else if (dim >= 45 && dim <= 89) {
        timeAgo = ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_prefix_about) + " "+ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_term_an)+ " " + ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_unit_hour);
    } else if (dim >= 90 && dim <= 1439) {
        timeAgo = ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_prefix_about) + " " + (Math.round(dim / 60)) + " " + ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_unit_hours);
    } else if (dim >= 1440 && dim <= 2519) {
        timeAgo = "1 " + ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_unit_day);
    } else if (dim >= 2520 && dim <= 43199) {
        timeAgo = (Math.round(dim / 1440)) + " " + ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_unit_days);
    } else if (dim >= 43200 && dim <= 86399) {
        timeAgo = ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_prefix_about) + " "+ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_term_a)+ " " + ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_unit_month);
    } else if (dim >= 86400 && dim <= 525599) {
        timeAgo = (Math.round(dim / 43200)) + " " + ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_unit_months);
    } else if (dim >= 525600 && dim <= 655199) {
        timeAgo = ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_prefix_about) + " "+ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_term_a)+ " " + ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_unit_year);
    } else if (dim >= 655200 && dim <= 914399) {
        timeAgo = ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_prefix_over) + " "+ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_term_a)+ " " + ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_unit_year);
    } else if (dim >= 914400 && dim <= 1051199) {
        timeAgo = ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_prefix_almost) + " 2 " + ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_unit_years);
    } else {
        timeAgo = ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_prefix_about) + " " + (Math.round(dim / 525600)) + " " + ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_unit_years);
    }

    return timeAgo + " " + ctx.getResources().getString(R.string.date_util_suffix);
}

private static int getTimeDistanceInMinutes(long time) {
      long timeDistance = currentDate().getTime() - time;
      return Math.round((Math.abs(timeDistance) / 1000) / 60);
}

Add following strings in your string.xml file

less than
a
an

second
seconds
minute
minutes
hour
hours
day
days
month
months
year
years

less than a
about
over
almost

ago