Hi. is there a library to get a string like "time ...

# multiplatform

[Hasan Nagizade]

Hi. is there a library to get a string like "time ago" for KMM?

[hfhbd]

Depending on your use case one very very simple option would be Duration.toString

[Stefan Oltmann]

I use the android.icu.text.RelativeDateTimeFormatter on Android, which is available for JVM through icu4j. Apple has it’s own RelativeDateTimeFormatter for that.

This gives you something like „7 minutes ago“ or „vor 7 Minuten“

[Hasan Nagizade]

@Stefan Oltmann so you are using expect/actual to do this?

[ephemient]

in addition to Android/Swift's versions of ICU, there's also the original
https://unicode-org.github.io/icu-docs/apidoc/released/icu4j/com/ibm/icu/text/RelativeDateTimeFormatter.html
https://unicode-org.github.io/icu-docs/apidoc/dev/icu4c/classicu_1_1RelativeDateTimeFormatter.html
and a similar interface for web
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/RelativeTimeFormat

[Stefan Oltmann]

Not in my case, but it’s possible.

[Hasan Nagizade]

@ephemient is there an example code to try this?

[Hasan Nagizade]

found this article it uses ktx date-time but not like time ago style https://betterprogramming.pub/date-formatting-with-kotlin-multiplatform-1329a2b75bb

[Stefan Oltmann]

Yeah, I don’t think kotlinx Datetime has RelativeDateFormat or IntervalDateFormat yet

[Stefan Oltmann]

Both are provided through icu

[ephemient]

kotlin doesn't have any multiplatform concept of "locale" and kotlinx-datetime doesn't have any locale-aware formatting

[Hasan Nagizade]

decided to use platform spesific implementations for iOS and Android. Thank you everyone