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

You can use TextClock widget provided by android

it requires minimum API level 17

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextClock

if you want the current time in another text view

you can use the below code snippet

 tClock = (TextClock) findViewById(R.id.textClock1);
        tView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview1);
        btn = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnGet);
        btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                tView.setText("Time: "+tClock.getText());
            }
        });
    }