Android Date Relative Format formatRelativeTime(String fullRelativeDate)

Description

format Relative Time

Declaration

private static String formatRelativeTime(String fullRelativeDate) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import android.util.Log;

public class Main {
    private static String formatRelativeTime(String fullRelativeDate) {

        //Log.d("Debug", "Compose tweet time: " + fullRelativeDate);

        final String relativeDateFormat1 = "(\\d+)\\s(\\w+)\\s\\w+"; // "49 seconds ago"
        final Pattern relativeDatePattern1 = Pattern
                .compile(relativeDateFormat1);
        final String relativeDateFormat2 = "(\\w+)\\s(\\d+)\\s(\\w+)"; // "in 4 seconds"
        final Pattern relativeDatePattern2 = Pattern
                .compile(relativeDateFormat2);

        final Matcher matcher1 = relativeDatePattern1
                .matcher(fullRelativeDate);
        final Matcher matcher2 = relativeDatePattern2
                .matcher(fullRelativeDate);
        final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        if (matcher1.matches()) {
            return sb.append(matcher1.group(1))
                    .append(matcher1.group(2).charAt(0)).toString();
        } else if (matcher2.matches()) {
            return sb.append(matcher2.group(2))
                    .append(matcher2.group(3).charAt(0)).toString();
        }// w w  w .  j av  a  2 s . com

        // If the regex couldn't be parsed, make the relative timestamp manually
        // Should never happen though
        Log.d("debug", "Relative date didn't match pattern: "
                + fullRelativeDate);
        final String[] info = fullRelativeDate.split("\\s");
        if (info.length > 2) {
            sb.append(info[0].toString()).append(" ")
                    .append(info[1].toString().substring(0, 1));
        } else {
            sb.append(info[0].toString());
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }
}

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