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

You can try this code: (delta is time in milliseconds)

public static String getDisplayableTime(long delta)
{       
     long difference=0;
     Long mDate = java.lang.System.currentTimeMillis();     

     if(mDate > delta)
     {
         difference= mDate - delta;     
         final long seconds = difference/1000;
         final long minutes = seconds/60;
         final long hours = minutes/60;
         final long days = hours/24;
         final long months = days/31;
         final long years = days/365;

        if (seconds < 0)
        {
          return "not yet";
        }
        else if (seconds < 60)
        {
          return seconds == 1 ? "one second ago" : seconds + " seconds ago";
        }
        else if (seconds < 120)
        {
          return "a minute ago";
        }
        else if (seconds < 2700) // 45 * 60
        {
          return minutes + " minutes ago";
        }
        else if (seconds < 5400) // 90 * 60
        {
          return "an hour ago";
        }
        else if (seconds < 86400) // 24 * 60 * 60
        {
          return hours + " hours ago";
        }
        else if (seconds < 172800) // 48 * 60 * 60
        {
          return "yesterday";
        }
        else if (seconds < 2592000) // 30 * 24 * 60 * 60
        {
          return days + " days ago";
        }
        else if (seconds < 31104000) // 12 * 30 * 24 * 60 * 60
        {

          return months <= 1 ? "one month ago" : days + " months ago";
        }
        else
        {

          return years <= 1 ? "one year ago" : years + " years ago";
        }
    }
        return null;
}

Answer 2

I am using the following the function to get RemainingTime but the format is almost same as you want. try this code and do changes as per your requirement.

/**
     * To convert expire time according to selected format(period) 
     * @param period
     * @return
     */
    public String getExpireDate(int period) {
        int days = 0, weeks = 0, hours = 0, mins = 0, secs = 0;
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

        Date systemDate = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
        String myDate = sdf.format(systemDate);



        long millse = // your time in milliseconds
        if (millse < 0) {
            return activity.getResources().getString(R.string.already_expire);
        }
        long mills = Math.abs(millse);

        if (mills > 60480000) {
            weeks = (int) (mills / 604800000);
            mills = mills % 604800000;
            days = (int) (mills / 86400000);
            mills = mills % 86400000;
            hours = (int) (mills / 3600000);
            mills = mills % 3600000;
            mins = (int) (mills / 60000);
            mills = mills % 60000;
            secs = (int) (mills / 1000);
        } else if (mills > 86400000) {
            days = (int) (mills / 86400000);
            mills = mills % 86400000;
            hours = (int) (mills / 3600000);
            mills = mills % 3600000;
            mins = (int) (mills / 60000);
            mills = mills % 60000;
            secs = (int) (mills / 1000);
        } else if (mills > 3600000) {
            hours = (int) (mills / 3600000);
            mills = mills % 3600000;
            mins = (int) (mills / 60000);
            mills = mills % 60000;
            secs = (int) (mills / 1000);
        }
        String remainingTime = "";
        switch (period) {
        case SHORT_PERIOD:

            if (weeks > 0) {
                if (weeks == 1) {
                    remainingTime = weeks + " week";
                } else {
                    remainingTime = weeks + " weeks";
                }
            } else if (days > 0) {
                if (days == 1) {
                    remainingTime = days + " day";
                } else {
                    remainingTime = days + " days";
                }
            } else if (hours > 0) {
                if (hours == 1) {
                    remainingTime = hours + " hour";
                } else {
                    remainingTime = hours + " hours";
                }
            } else if (mins > 0) {
                if (mins == 1) {
                    remainingTime = mins + " minute";
                } else {
                    remainingTime = mins + " minutes";
                }
            } else {
                if (secs == 1) {
                    remainingTime = secs + " second";
                } else {
                    remainingTime = secs + " seconds";
                }

            }
            break;
        case DETAILED_PERIOD:
            if (weeks > 0) {
                remainingTime = (weeks * 7) + days + " days," + hours
                        + " hours," + mins + " minutes";// + secs + " secs";
            } else if (days > 0) {
                remainingTime = days + " days," + hours + " hours," + mins
                        + " minutes";// + secs + " seconds";
            } else if (hours > 0) {
                remainingTime = hours + " hours," + mins + " minutes";// + secs
                                                                        // +
                                                                        // " seconds";
            } else if (mins > 0) {
                remainingTime = mins + " minutes";// + secs + " seconds";
            }
            break;
        case EXACT_DATE_TIME:
            SimpleDateFormat target = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
            try {
                remainingTime = target.format(sdf.parse(taskData
                        .getTask_expire_date()));
            } catch (ParseException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            break;
        default:
            break;
        }
        return remainingTime;
    }