implementing pretty time to format Date time in android -

i implementing pretty time library site http://www.ocpsoft.org/prettytime/ formatted date string text in android application.

i feeding date string local sqlite database,

     string datestring="2015-09-25 15:00:47";      simpledateformat dateformat = new simpledateformat("mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss aa");       date converteddate = new date();       try {          converteddate = dateformat.parse(datestring);      } catch (parseexception e) {          // todo auto-generated catch block          e.printstacktrace();      }       prettytime p  = new prettytime();       string datetime= p.format(converteddate);      textview.settext(datetime); 

i want able date formatted parsetext

 2 minutes ago  1 day ago  ... 

however snippet codes above gives me text , avoids time. gives

 minutes ago ... 

please there need do, grateful if help. thanks

you're not passing date prettytime object, because date-conversion fails. confirm in logcat.

the problem you're passing different date format , 24h time date format:

simpledateformat dateformat = new simpledateformat("mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss aa"); 

you can either change date format string use 24h time , match date format, so:

string datestring="2015-09-25 15:00:47"; simpledateformat dateformat = new simpledateformat("yyyy-mm-dd kk:mm:ss"); 

or change time pass in be:

 string datestring="09/25/2015-09-25 3:00:47 pm";  simpledateformat dateformat = new simpledateformat("mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss aa");