Showing the countup timer

Question

I want to show the count up timer in my android app in yy-MM-dd h:m:s format

What I tried: I tried manipulating the CountDownTimer so that it works in reverse order. Changing the interval to -1000 or adding 2000 milliseconds to the Countdown every second. Both didn't work. Then I figured I should use the Chronometer class. The standard Chronometer only displays hours, minutes and seconds as far as I'm concerned. So no days, no months and no years. One more thing that

If time is less then 1 min then timer only shows seconds like this

00 sec
If less then 1 hour then only minutes and seconds then format should be

00 min 00 sec
If less then 1 day then only hours, mins and seconds

00 hours 00 min 00 sec
If less them 1 month then only show days,hours,mins,secs

0 days 00 hours 00 min 00 sec
If less then one years then only show months,days,hours,mins,secs

0 months 0 days 00 hours 00 min 00 sec
If more then a year then shows like

0 years 0 months 0 days 00 hours 00 min 00 sec

My code that i wrote

  chronometer.setFormat("%s");
    chronometer.setBase(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime());
    chronometer.setOnChronometerTickListener(new Chronometer.OnChronometerTickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onChronometerTick(Chronometer chronometer) {

            String cTextSize = chronometer.getText().toString();

           if ((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) < 60000) {
               chronometer.setText(cTextSize.substring(3,5)+" sec");

            }
            else if (((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) >= 60000)  &&  ((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) < 3600000)){
                chronometer.setText(cTextSize.substring(0,2)+" mins "+cTextSize.substring(3,5)+" sec");
            }
            else if (((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) >= 3600000)  &&  ((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) < 86400000)){
                chronometer.setText(cTextSize.substring(0,2)+" hours "+cTextSize.substring(3,5)+" mins "+cTextSize.substring(6,8)+" sec");
            }
}

Here code runs fine until showing hours but now i want if hours are greater then 24 it shows 1 day not 25th hour

Your help will be much appreciated and if u don't know the answer then kindly don't vote it negative

Umar Ghaffar · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-30T10:10:18.053

Well thanks to all google certified developer for helping me. Anyway this is how I solved my problem

chronometer.setOnChronometerTickListener(new Chronometer.OnChronometerTickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onChronometerTick(Chronometer chronometer) {

            String cTextSize = chronometer.getText().toString();


            if ((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) < 60000) {
                chronometer.setText(cTextSize.substring(3, 5) + " sec");

            } 
            else if (((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) >= 60000) && ((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) < 3600000)) {
                chronometer.setText(cTextSize.substring(0, 2) + " mins " + cTextSize.substring(3, 5) + " sec");
            } 
            else if (((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) >= 3600000) && ((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) < 86400000)) {
                if (chronometer.getText().length() == 8){
                    chronometer.setText(cTextSize.substring(0, 2) + " hours " + cTextSize.substring(3, 5) + " mins " + cTextSize.substring(6, 8) + " sec");
            }
        }
            else if(((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) >= 86400000) && ((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) < 2592000000L))
            {
                Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "day", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                long dy = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase());
                final long hr = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase())
                        - TimeUnit.DAYS.toHours(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()));
                final long min = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase())
                        - TimeUnit.HOURS.toMinutes(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()));
                final long sec = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase())
                        - TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()));
                if(dy==1) {
                    chronometer.setText(dy + " day " + hr + " hours " + min + " mins " + sec + " sec ");
                }else if(dy>1) {
                    chronometer.setText(dy + " days " + hr + " hours " + min + " mins " + sec + " sec ");
                }
                }
            else if(((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) >= 2592000000L) && ((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) < 31556952000L))
            {
                Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "month", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                long dy = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase());
                final long mn = dy / 30;
                dy %= 30;
                final long hr = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase())
                        - TimeUnit.DAYS.toHours(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()));
                final long min = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase())
                        - TimeUnit.HOURS.toMinutes(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()));
                final long sec = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase())
                        - TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()));
                    chronometer.setText(mn+" months "+dy + " days " + hr + " hours " + min + " mins " + sec + " sec ");
            }

            else if(((SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()) >= 31556952000L))
            {
                Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "year", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                long dy = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase());
                final long yr = dy / 365;
                dy %= 365;

                final long mn = dy / 30;
                dy %= 30;
                final long hr = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase())
                        - TimeUnit.DAYS.toHours(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()));
                final long min = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase())
                        - TimeUnit.HOURS.toMinutes(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()));
                final long sec = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase())
                        - TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - chronometer.getBase()));
                    chronometer.setText(yr+" years "+mn+" months "+dy + " days " + hr + " hours " + min + " mins " + sec + " sec ");
            }

        }
    });

Showing the countup timer

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