How to use, Once times days, minutes

[webserveis]

Great library,
Since I can use for each X days run a process?

I have done with total times the ap runs, it works correctly

final static String APP_RATE_COUNT = "app_rate_count";
final static int APP_RATE_LAUNCHES = 3;

        Once.markDone(APP_RATE_COUNT);
        if (Once.beenDone(APP_RATE_COUNT, Amount.moreThan(APP_RATE_LAUNCHES))) {
            Once.clearDone(APP_RATE_COUNT);
            showDialogAppRate();
        }

But I try to do the equivalent but time units

[jonfinerty]

Hi webserveis,

Thanks, glad you're using it.

The time limits in Once work with a sliding window of time, not calendar days. If you want to show your rating dialog every three days it could be the following (where your 'X' is 3 in this case):

if (!Once.beenDone(TimeUnit.DAYS, 3, APP_RATE)) {
            showDialogAppRate();
            Once.markDone(APP_RATE);
}

This however will show your rating dialog immediately, then in 3 days and again in 3 more days...

So perhaps you could do something like this:

if (ratingPrecondition() && !Once.beenDone(TimeUnit.DAYS, 3, APP_RATE)) {
            showDialogAppRate();
            Once.markDone(APP_RATE);
}

Where ratingPrecondition() maybe checks if they've done some key actions in your app already

[ethanleeX]

I want to show the rate dialog every day not every 24 hours ,what should I do ?

[jonfinerty]

@LyCharlie hmm, well if there's a enough demand I may extend the library to allow this (I've avoided it as human times are fiddly)

In the mean time you could do the following:

Date lastDone = Once.lastDone(yourTagHere);
Date now = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd"); 
if (!fmt.format(lastDone).equals(fmt.format(now))) {
    showDialog();
}

(Date comparison stolen from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/22442659/798464)

Hope that helps

[jonfinerty]

You folks happy?

If so I'll close the issue. Thanks for your input/questions 😄