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Kurt
Kurt

Reputation: 777

Changing the formatting for a time display

I am using the following code to display a timer in my app (in an editText named "time")

final TextView time = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtTime);
Long spentTime = System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime;
Long minius = (spentTime/1000)/60;
Long seconds = (spentTime/1000) % 60;
time.setText(minius+":"+seconds);
handler.postDelayed(this, 1000);

This works well but the formatting is a bit ugly. So for e.g. at 4 seconds the timer shows "0:4" which doesn't really look like a timer.

How do I change the formatting of the setText so that it shows a more usual timer (such as 00:04), without having to make a bunch of if statements (if seconds less than 10 then 0+seconds and so on)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 226

Answers (2)

Devin Stewart
Devin Stewart

Reputation: 3036

You need to set leading 0's with the String.format command. Try:

time.setText(String.format("%02d",minius) + ":" + String.format("%02d",seconds));

That gives always gives you two digits leading with a 0 when it is only one.

Upvotes: 0

Reimeus
Reimeus

Reputation: 159844

You can use String.format to pad the digits with 0's:

String formattedTime = String.format("%02d:%02d", minius, seconds);
time.setText(formattedTime);

Upvotes: 1

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