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Louis Sankey
22,595 Pointsimplement getter and setter methods for a countdown timer?
Hello Android experts, I have a list view and I am trying to setup a countdown timer in each list item. I want to be able to host the countdown timer in my model list item class, but then I have no idea how to get the countdown timer in my adapter and set the countdown textview with the countdown. I can call listItem.getCountdown(), but what does that do for me? Maybe I need another method in my model class that returns a string with the formatted countdown time, but then won't that be a static string and not update like a countdown timer would? I'm sure I'll be working on this all day so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Seth Kroger
56,413 PointsYou haven't said how you are implementing the countdown timer but it would be a good idea for it to have a getRemainingTime() method. Because the display will be dynamic, you'll probably be updating it on an interval through notifyDatasetChanged() and call on it to set text field.
Louis Sankey
22,595 Pointsyes, that is basically what I ended up doing. I made getRemainingTime() return long value and then re-instantiate whenever the view is recreated. Thanks for the help!