During Android app development, each item tries to attach a unique int type id. I thought that the point at which the item was created is unique, so after calling Calendar.getInstance(), I thought to give it by changing the value of timeInMillis to toInt(). Even if it is transformed into an int like this, does the value become unique?
val calendar = Calendar.getInstance()
val longId = calendar.timeInMillis // 1611807420557
val intId = calendar.timeinMillis.toInt() // 1194684557
As a result of my testing, the above values were output. Is the 1194684557 value changed to int a unique id?
toInt()
isn't a good idea because it won't work if your long is out of range of the int. I would recommend to divide the millis by something like 1000. And then convert it to int.
Try something like that:
val intId = (longId / 1000).toInt()