Android in date write today yesterday 2 days ago like that

Question

I need to print date like today,Yesterday,2 days ago like that for that i have done I am getting date like : String date1 = \"Thu Nov 13 19:01:25 GMT+05:30 2014\";

Answer 1

Imagine you have data like this:

{"data":[{"id":"79tiyfjgdfg","sales_name":"Sengkuni","sales_branch":"Kingdom of Hastina","message":"Leader of Kurowo sent you a gold","timestamp":"2020-03-23 10:16:01"}]}

and call function like this:

holder.timestamp.setText(Utils.beautifyDate(context, notifications.get(position).getTimestamp(), "EEEE, MMMM d, YYYY"));

for another format you can check from https://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/SimpleDateFormat

Use this function below

public static String beautifyDate(Context context, String timestamp, String formatDate) {

    String beautifyFormat;

    SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-M-dd H:mm:ss", Locale.getDefault());
    Date date = new Date();

    try {
        date = fmt.parse(timestamp);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    String mYear = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy", Locale.getDefault()).format(date);
    String mMonth = new SimpleDateFormat("M", Locale.getDefault()).format(date);
    String mDay = new SimpleDateFormat("dd", Locale.getDefault()).format(date);
    String mHour = new SimpleDateFormat("H", Locale.getDefault()).format(date);
    String mMinutes = new SimpleDateFormat("mm", Locale.getDefault()).format(date);

    Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
    int years = now.get(Calendar.YEAR);
    int months = now.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;
    int days = now.get(Calendar.DATE);
    int hours = now.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
    int minutes = now.get(Calendar.MINUTE);

    if (mYear.equals(String.valueOf(years)) && mMonth.equals(String.valueOf(months)) && mDay.equals(String.valueOf(days))) {
        Log.i("timestamp", "on same day");
        hours -= Integer.parseInt(mHour);

        beautifyFormat = hours > 1 ? hours + " " + context.getString(R.string.hours_ago): hours + " " + context.getString(R.string.hour_ago);

        if (hours == 0) {
            minutes -= Integer.parseInt(mMinutes);
            beautifyFormat = minutes > 1 ? minutes + " " + context.getString(R.string.minutes_ago): context.getString(R.string.moments_ago);
        }
    } else {
        days = now.get(Calendar.DATE) - Integer.parseInt(mDay);

        if (days == 1) {
            beautifyFormat = context.getString(R.string.tomorrow);
        } else {
            beautifyFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(formatDate, Locale.getDefault()).format(date);
        }
    }

    return beautifyFormat;
}

simply adjust the time you want to be able to see results like today or tomorrow and others

Hope it is useful.