Countdown timer in HH:MM:SS format in Android

Question

I am trying to develop a countdown timer in android. In this example I am entering a number of minutes as a parameter which is shown in a countdown timer.

The problem is that when I am entering minutes, for example 65, then the counter will be 65:00. I would like the counter to show 1:05:00 i.e. in HH:MM:SS format.

public class MainActivity extends Activity implements OnClickListener {

private Button buttonStartTime, buttonStopTime;
private EditText edtTimerValue;
private TextView textViewShowTime; // will show the time
private CountDownTimer countDownTimer; // built in android class
                                        // CountDownTimer
private long totalTimeCountInMilliseconds; // total count down time in
                                            // milliseconds
private long timeBlinkInMilliseconds; // start time of start blinking
private boolean blink; // controls the blinking .. on and off

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    buttonStartTime = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnStartTime);
    buttonStopTime = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnStopTime);
    textViewShowTime = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvTimeCount);
    edtTimerValue = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edtTimerValue);

    buttonStartTime.setOnClickListener(this);
    buttonStopTime.setOnClickListener(this);

}

@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
    if (v.getId() == R.id.btnStartTime) {
        textViewShowTime.setTextAppearance(getApplicationContext(),
                R.style.normalText);
        setTimer();
        buttonStopTime.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        buttonStartTime.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        edtTimerValue.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        edtTimerValue.setText("");
        startTimer();

    } else if (v.getId() == R.id.btnStopTime) {
        countDownTimer.cancel();
        buttonStartTime.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        buttonStopTime.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        edtTimerValue.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    }
}

private void setTimer() {
    int time = 0;
    if (!edtTimerValue.getText().toString().equals("")) {
        time = Integer.parseInt(edtTimerValue.getText().toString());
    } else
        Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Please Enter Minutes...",
                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

    totalTimeCountInMilliseconds = 60 * time * 1000;

    timeBlinkInMilliseconds = 30 * 1000;
}

private void startTimer() {
    countDownTimer = new CountDownTimer(totalTimeCountInMilliseconds, 500) {
        // 500 means, onTick function will be called at every 500
        // milliseconds

        @Override
        public void onTick(long leftTimeInMilliseconds) {
            long seconds = leftTimeInMilliseconds / 1000;

            if (leftTimeInMilliseconds < timeBlinkInMilliseconds) {
                textViewShowTime.setTextAppearance(getApplicationContext(),
                        R.style.blinkText);
                // change the style of the textview .. giving a red
                // alert style

                if (blink) {
                    textViewShowTime.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                    // if blink is true, textview will be visible
                } else {
                    textViewShowTime.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
                }

                blink = !blink; // toggle the value of blink
            }

            textViewShowTime.setText(String.format("%02d", seconds / 60)
                    + ":" + String.format("%02d", seconds % 60));
            // format the textview to show the easily readable format

        }

        @Override
        public void onFinish() {
            // this function will be called when the timecount is finished
            textViewShowTime.setText("Time up!");
            textViewShowTime.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            buttonStartTime.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            buttonStopTime.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            edtTimerValue.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        }

    }.start();

}
}

Answer 1

I am using the below code to convert from duration in seconds to the format HH:MM:SS.

String.format("%02d:%02d:%02d", durationSeconds / 3600,
                (durationSeconds % 3600) / 60, (durationSeconds % 60));

You can easily adjust this to accept input in minutes but then your output will be in the format of HH:MM:00 since you do not have seconds, e.g.:

String.format("%02d:%02d:%02d", durationMinutes / 60, durationMinutes % 60, 0);