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Firebase CompareTo Method

i am trying to use compareTo method based on firebase docs to get how long ago was the database entry created.
https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/android/com/google/firebase/Timestamp
I am trying to do something like this
var postedAgo = myEntry.dateCreated.compareTo(firebase.database.ServerValue.TIMESTAMP);
myEntry.dateCreated is stored TIMESTAMP, so all i got in my db is numerical value. I hope thats right. But the problem is when i log this it says that compareTo is not a function.
I am obviously doing something wrong, but i cant find almost anything on compareTo beyond the documentation. I wonder if anyone is even using it.
Thanks
Luke

The Firebase Database ServerValue.TIMESTAMP is not an actual value of a timestamp, but a so-called marker value that the server recognized (and then replaces by the current timestamp when writing to the database). Because of this, you cannot use ServerValue.TIMESTAMP in pure client-side operations.
If you want to determine how long ago a node was created, you'd take the timestamp from that node and subtract it from the current timestamp. So if myEntry.dateCreated is a timestamp that was written with ServerValue.TIMESTAMP, you could do:
System.currentTimeMillis() - myEntry.dateCreated

Calculator final output issue

I am creating a calculator app in android. It should calculate anonymously whatever is on textBox. For e.g. I enter 1+2.5-5*8 in textBox. But when I call addition method the app gets crashed. Because the input is in string format and answer I want is in numeric format. I used string buffer. I tried in java that when I enter (1+1+3-1) in stringBuffer and I display using println() method it give correct answer but same does not happen with string buffer when I take that value from editText.

You have to convert string into integer or float.
Use Integer.parseInt("") method to covert to integer and Float.parseFloat("") to convert to float.

First of all welcome to StackOverFlow
It might help if you add code and the error log in the question
So I am gonna cover all the possible things that might be happening wrong in your program:
NumberFormatException- you might not be converting the string "12" into int 12 to do so use Interger.parseInt(your string buffer with number only here);
Try using a stack and a queue for your solution (google it you will get details)
You might be making a mistake in getting string from edittext it sometimes give NullPointerException
if above is not enough comment and add your code asap

output text line by line

I write app for Android such gets data from server in JSON format. Now I get this value in string, but in my application it must look like:
Route:
1)first point
2)secon point
3).....
n) n point
I read that in Android in textView I can do it if string will be with html tags but I think it is not the best variant. After Android I must do it in iPhone now I don't know how to do that there. Send Routes as Array is not good variant too. Can you say what is the best way to decide this problem?

Have a look here you will have to find the good pattern .
Hence you have separated strings just use a list View with an ArrayAdapter.
I am not so good with regex but i think it should like : [1-9][0-9]) [[a-f][0-9]]+

I couldn't comment b/c of rep, sorry. Could you provide an example of returned JSON string. I think JSON format can be parsed with ease.
If this the case you can parse it in a loop (or another way. I'm not that good at it)
String[] parseIt (String JSON){
String[] list=JSON.split("\\d\\)");
String[] rlist=new String[list.length-1];
for(int i=0;i<list.length-1;i++){
rlist[i]=list[i+1].trim();
}
return rlist;
}
This might do trick. But you should edit result. I didn't test yet
Edit: I edited code. It simply return the address now with leading whitespace. You can get rid off them using. String trim() method like;
list[1].trim();
Do it in loop and don't care about first element (index 0).
Edit 2: Now it should work

get date value for db in android

I am storing from-date and to-date in my sqlite db in 2012-02-15 00:02:03 format. Now how can retrieve this. I tried with the following query .. where did i go wrong.
select category,sum(amount) from inbox where strftime(currentdate) > strftime(fastdate)
it shows error. can any one help me to solve this

You are not using strftime correctly.
strftime('format', 'time')
It takes a format and a string version of the time. You are not putting the time in as a string at all.
You can see all the different formats and some examples here.
Your comparison should look like this...
strftime('%s','currentdate') > strftime('%s','fastdate')

solution for SQLite function for time difference without java code

Hey please pay attention to solve this problem I know this could be possible but I am not getting the way ..
I am using sqlite in android to store and manipulate the field as shown below in the figure
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first_start_time,last_start_time,last_end_time are datetime field in SQLite database
I need to get the difference of last_start_time and last_end_time as mean of function so that I don't need to do it programatically
last_end_time = strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S','now','localtime')
last_start_time= strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S','2012-01-27 02:34:56')
,i,e if my firsttime is =2012-06-15 14:54:33
and Endtime is =2012-06-15 14:54:40
then time diff would be like this =00:00:14;
i want to have such difference time like last_end_time -last_start_time
i also want to use trigger to do use in sqlite data base in android
at the last I need that all my total_expended_time should get summed up like ...
select sum(total_expended_time) from study_result
.. one thing keep in mind the result should be in datetime stamp so that i can reflect it to my UI
Any suggestion will be appreciated