How to display Analog clock and Digital clock in Android

Last Updated : 12 Feb, 2025

Analog and digital clocks are used for display the time in android application.

Analog clock: Analog clock is a subclass of View class. It represents a circular clock. Around the circle, numbers 1 to 12 appear to represent the hour and two hands are used to show instant of the time- shorter one for the hour and longer is for minutes.
Digital clock: Digital clock is subclass of TextView Class and uses numbers to display the time in “HH:MM” format.

Pre-requisites:

In this Article, a simple android application is built to display the Analog clock and Digital clock.

How to create a Android Analog clock and Digital clock?

This example will help to develop an Android App that displays an Analog clock and a Digital clock according to the example shown above:

Step by Step Implementation

Step 1: Create a new project in Android Studio

Firstly create a new Android Application. This will create an XML file “activity_main.xml” and a File “MainActivity”. Please refer the pre-requisites to learn more about this step.

Step2: Working with activity_main.xml

Open “activity_main.xml” file and add following widgets in a Constraint Layout:

An Analog clock
A Digital clock

This will make the UI of the Application. There is no need for assignment of IDs as these widgets will display the time by themselves.

activity_main.xml:

<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@color/white"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <AnalogClock
        android:id="@+id/analogClock"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.3" />

    <DigitalClock
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textSize="25sp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/analogClock" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

Design UI:

Step3: Working with MainActivity File

Leave the MainActivity File code as it is, as shown below.

MainActivity.java

package org.geeksforgeeks.demo;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }
}

MainActivity.kt

package org.geeksforgeeks.demo

import android.os.Bundle
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
    }
}