TimeSinceTextView

With Arabic language support

This is a subclass of android.widget.TextView that exposes a method setDate() which accepts a long Unix timestamp or java.util.Date. The view converts the date into a String which describes the date in terms of time since that timestamp. For example, if the current timestamp is Unix 1453503166 and we call timeSinceTextView.setDate(1453503116), "50 seconds ago" is displayed.

This fork support Arabic language, and follows the language plurals e.g.:

    <plurals name="tstv_timespan_in_hours">
        <item quantity="zero">الآن</item>
        <item quantity="one">بعد ساعة</item>
        <item quantity="two">بعد ساعتين</item>
        <item quantity="few">بعد %d ساعات</item>
        <item quantity="many">بعد %d ساعة</item>
    </plurals>

Comparison to DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString

I actually wrote this library before I knew about DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString, but the output is actually quite a bit different. The DateUtils implementation should return localized text and allows for customizable flags. See here for a comparison of the output of different time stamps.

Usage

Simply declare a TimeSinceTextView in XML or create one in code.

<com.ddiehl.timesincetextview.TimeSinceTextView
  android:id="@+id/timestamp"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

Then call setDate(Date) or setDate(long) with a Unix timestamp, and the text will be automatically generated and set to the view.

((TimeSinceTextView) findViewById(R.id.timestamp)).setDate(1452827942);

The class TimeSince also contains static methods which can be used to retrieve a relative timestamp string without an instance of TimeSinceTextView.

Add to your project

repositories {
    maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
}
dependencies {
  compile 'com.github.indielabs:TimeSinceTextView:1.+'
}