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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Working with JSON Cleaning Up the Date and Time

Diego Marrs
Diego Marrs
8,243 Points
Posted by Diego Marrs
Diego Marrs
8,243 Points

Quick question.

Hello,

I'm confused on how we were able to get the time. How were we able to get the time (via getTime()) if no value was passed in or if we never called it? Also when we made the getFormattedTime() function, shouldn't it return an int instead of a string?

Thanks!

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

In this case the time is coming from the API response. You should see it being extracted from the JSON and set in getCurrentDetails(). It returns a string because you are formatting it with the ":" and "AM/PM" so it needs a string for that.