Question

I am trying to take have a time that counts down all the way to 0 from 1 minute.

I have already created my timer. I just need to know how do i convert a int such as 100 to a String to show 1:00 as in a minute and keep counting down like minus 1 secodn from the int and convert it to the String :59?

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

If I understand your question correctly you simply want to divide your number by 60 to get the minutes and then mod your number by 60 to get the seconds and then concat the strings.

int remainingTime = 100;// or whatever number of seconds you have left
String min = (remainingTime / 60) + "";
String sec = (remainingTime % 60) + "";

String remainingTimeStamp = "min" + ":" + "sec";

If you want to get fancy with it, check to see if min and sec are less than 10 and append a leading zero, so that it looks like 01:05 rather than 1:5

I’m not sure what you mean by “I already have my timer”. I’ll wait for you to update your question, rather than speculate as to what you might mean, before I continue elaborating.