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Megha
Megha

Reputation: 1581

Chronometer set wrong long value

Set manually long value to chronometer.my long value is correct but when I set this to chronometer.setBase()it display specially character instead of correct time.

    // hourInt = 4
    // minInt = 34
    // secInt = 40
    Calendar cal1 = Calendar.getInstance();
                    cal1.set(Calendar.HOUR, hourInt);
                    cal1.set(Calendar.MINUTE, minInt);
                    cal1.set(Calendar.SECOND, secInt);

                long codeBase = cal1.getTime().getTime();
                System.out.println("Code Base..."+codeBase);
 chronometer.setBase(codeBase);
                chronometer.start();

it display special chraracter like 00:0) and 00:0* and all special character. how to set custom long value.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 884

Answers (1)

ZonedCode Media
ZonedCode Media

Reputation: 31

I was struggling with this myself until I managed to figure it out through trial and error.

Chronometer.setBase() wants millis based on the elapsed real time. This means that epoch milliseconds don't work. In order to be able to use epoch milliseconds, you have to call Chronometer.setBase() like this:

chronometer.setBase(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() -
    System.currentTimeMillis() + codeBase);

The math effectively converts the epoch milliseconds to elapsed real time milliseconds.

Upvotes: 2

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