How to use Period.parse()?

Question

Period.parse() requires API level 26. Is there any workaround to use it with minimum API level 17.

I am using

Period snoozeTime = Period.parse(rs.getString(rs.getColumnIndex("snoozeTime")));

No, because `Period` itself is new to API Level 26. You would need to look into a third-party date/time library. — CommonsWare, Nov 30 '17 at 16:51
For Java 6 & Java 7, see the *ThreeTen-Backport* project. For older Android, the *ThreeTenABP* project. — Basil Bourque, Nov 30 '17 at 17:14
May I ask you what kind of input needs to be parsed? Examples? I could enhance my answer if I knew what format exactly you want to parse. — Meno Hochschild, Nov 30 '17 at 17:19
@BasilBourque, shouldn't it be the ThreeTenABP for all android versions due to criminal ineficiencies in resource and service loading mechanisms on Android? — M. Prokhorov, Dec 01 '17 at 12:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 30 '17 at 17:09

The main advantage of using ThreetenABP (a wrapper around the backport of JSR-310) might be to get the same feeling as if you use java.time.Period, but you have to change the import statement, namely org.threeten.bp.Period.

Duration parsers for Android are also available in Joda-Time-Android (called PeriodFormatter) or in my lib Time4A (for example pattern-based or as ISO-8601-parsing-methods in class Duration).

Note that the external APIs of Joda-Time and Time4J/A are superior to the parsing capabilities of JSR-310-class java.time.Period. Latter one can only understand some few ISO-8601-standard formats.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 01 '20 at 00:39

Just use Java 8+ API desugaring support. Take a look: https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support#library-desugaring

It's meant to provide the new java 8 features on Android with older apis

It's even recommended by ThreetenABP in its github page

How to use Period.parse()?

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