I am trying to make a countdown timer for a game/date in android. I want to create a timer that displays the days, hours, minutes, and seconds to a date I specify with a fin
Take a look at this post, I think it will help you out: How to check day in android?
Using the java.util.Calendar class, I think you should be able to figure out how to do the rest.
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Date.html -- you can use the getDate(), getHours(), getMinutes(), getSeconds(), etc... Hope that helps!