Formatting seconds and minutes

Question

I need to format seconds and minutes from milliseconds. I am using countdownTimer. does anyone have sugestions? I looked at joda time. But all i need is a format so i have 1

Answer 1

You could do it using the standard Date formatting classes, but that might be a bit heavy-weight. I would just use the String.format method. For example:

int minutes = time / (60 * 1000);
int seconds = (time / 1000) % 60;
String str = String.format("%d:%02d", minutes, seconds);