How to set timer in android?

Question

Can someone give a simple example of updating a textfield every second or so?

I want to make a flying ball and need to calculate/update the ball coordinates every se

Answer 1

You need to create a thread to handle the update loop and use it to update the textarea. The tricky part though is that only the main thread can actually modify the ui so the update loop thread needs to signal the main thread to do the update. This is done using a Handler.

Check out this link: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html# Click on the section titled "Example ProgressDialog with a second thread". It's an example of exactly what you need to do, except with a progress dialog instead of a textfield.