Sorting list of custom objects wrt a property in android studio (API level problem)

Question

I want to sort a list of custom objects in descending order with respect to its one property (with a variable type "long") in android. For this, I used Collections Comparator but my problem is it says "Long.compare call requires API level 19 (current min is 16)" Is there any alternative way to handle this? (The code runs perfectly on my virtual device it gives no error but I want it to run on devices with API level below 19)

My sorting code is:

// Sort the news according to their last update time (show the latest on top)
    Collections.sort(news, new Comparator<NewsItem>() {
        @Override
        public int compare(NewsItem newsItem1, NewsItem newsItem2) {
            return Long.compare(newsItem2.getUpdateTime(), newsItem1.getUpdateTime());
        }
    });

my custom object is NewsItem with five attributes and I want to sort the list wrt to the UpdateTime attribute which is of the Long type.

Mureinik · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-23 20:19:54Z

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You could create Long objects for the times and compare them directly:

Collections.sort(news, new Comparator<NewsItem>() {
    @Override
    public int compare(NewsItem newsItem1, NewsItem newsItem2) {
        return Long.valueOf(newsItem2.getUpdateTime()).compareTo(
               Long.valueOf(newsItem1.getUpdateTime()));
    }
});

As a side note - API level 16 is quite outdated, and you may want to consider upgrading your requirements.

edited Sep 23, 2018 at 20:19

answered Sep 23, 2018 at 20:10

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Huseyin Sahin Over a year ago

It was advised that to support much devices, keep the minSdkLevel to low, so I choose API level 16, but I can increase it. Thanks for the answer Mureinik.

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