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

Check out the Chronometer and DigitalClock classes, which are extensions of the TextView class. They should automatically do what you're looking for. If you need some additional functionality, just take a look at the source code for those and make any changes you need.

UPDATE:

Since digital clock is deprecated in API 17, I would recommend to use Text Clock instead.