I have database table with the columns {Name, Time (UTC format) , Latitude, Longitude}
I display the table using a ListActivity with a SimpleCursorAdapter.
I would like that the column Time show the time in a human readable format (13-07-2010 10:40) rather than in UTC format (18190109089).
How can I specify that the values from column Time need some filtering/adaptation?
POSSIBLE SOLUTION (with a problem):
SimpleCursorAdapter offers the method:
setCursorToStringConverter(SimpleCursorAdapter.CursorToStringConverter cursorToStringConverter);
to specify how a class that is able to convert a Cursor to CharSequence (convertToString(Cursor cursor).
Anyway I don't know in which format should be the return CharSequence paramater!
The simplest way to format a cursor value is to use SimpleCursorAdapter.setViewBinder(..):
SimpleCursorAdapter adapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, R.layout.list, cursor,
new String[] { Definition.Item.TITLE, Definition.Item.CREATE_DATE }, new int[] { R.id.title, R.id.createDate});
adapter.setViewBinder(new ViewBinder() {
public boolean setViewValue(View aView, Cursor aCursor, int aColumnIndex) {
if (aColumnIndex == 2) {
String createDate = aCursor.getString(aColumnIndex);
TextView textView = (TextView) aView;
textView.setText("Create date: " + MyFormatterHelper.formatDate(getApplicationContext(), createDate));
return true;
}
return false;
}
});
i also had the same problem after long struggle finally i found answer :) ( see below )
use setViewText (TextView v, String text)
for example
SimpleCursorAdapter shows = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, R.layout.somelayout, accountCursor, from, to)
{
@Override
public void setViewText(TextView v, String text) {
super.setViewText(v, convText(v, text));
}
};
private String convText(TextView v, String text)
{
switch (v.getId())
{
case R.id.date:
String formatedText = text;
//do format
return formatedText;
}
return text;
}
You can use setViewBinder()
, or subclass SimpleCursorAdapter
and override bindView()
.
You can use SQLite syntax on that column to format the date.
Something like this will do it
SELECT strftime('%d-%m-%Y %H:%M',1092941466,'unixepoch');
SELECT strftime('%d-%m-%Y %H:%M',timecol,'unixepoch');
Going thru this old post, noticed I have done something similar that might help:
public class FormatCursorAdapter extends SimpleCursorAdapter {
protected int[] mFormats;
public static final int FORMAT_TEXT=0;
public static final int FORMAT_CURRENCY=1;
public static final int FORMAT_DATE=2;
public FormatCursorAdapter(Context context, int layout, Cursor c, String[] from, int[] to, int[] formats, int flags) {
super(context, layout, c, from, to, flags);
mFormats = formats;
ViewBinder viewBinder = new ViewBinder() {
@Override
public boolean setViewValue(View view, Cursor cursor, int columnIndex) {
int formatType = mFormats[columnIndex-1];
switch (formatType) {
case FORMAT_CURRENCY:
NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();
nf.setMaximumFractionDigits(2);
((TextView)view).setText(nf.format(cursor.getDouble(columnIndex)));
return true;
case FORMAT_DATE:
DateFormat df = SimpleDateFormat.getDateTimeInstance();
((TextView)view).setText(df.format(new Date(cursor.getLong(columnIndex))));
return true;
}
return false;
}
};
setViewBinder(viewBinder);
}
}
Usage:
// For the cursor adapter, specify which columns go into which views with which format
String[] fromColumns = {
Table.COLUMN_TITLE,
Table.COLUMN_AMOUNT,
Table.COLUMN_DATE};
int[] toViews = {
R.id.tvTitle,
R.id.tvAmount,
R.id.tvDate};
int[] formatViews = {
FormatCursorAdapter.FORMAT_TEXT,
FormatCursorAdapter.FORMAT_CURRENCY,
FormatCursorAdapter.FORMAT_DATE};
mAdapter=new FormatCursorAdapter(getContext(),R.layout.item_operation,cursor,
fromOpsColumns,toOpsViews,formatViews,0);
mListView.setAdapter(mOpsAdapter);
Hope this helps anyone out there !