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

I recommend TextClock (From API 17), also please dont use DigitalClock (Deprecated from API 17) as it will cause MEMORY LEAK and will lead to Out of Memory Exception. Please add the following piece of code to corresponding layout.xml file

This will do the trick, also please note that you can format the displaying time as required for example for getting in 12 hour format with seconds you can use "android:format12Hour="hh:mm:ss a"".