Android: How do I display an updating clock in a TextView

Question

have a clock I want to display in a TextView.

I would have thought there was a few nice functions to do this, but I couldn\'t find anything. I ended up implementing

Answer 1

Remember: premature optimization is the root of all evil. So only optimize when you are sure (=have measured it) that your implementation is slow/inefficient.

That said, a more efficient method would probably be to record start time via System.currentTimeMillis() and then periodically check it and calculate difference in minutes.