How to put some delay in calling an activity from another activity?

Question

I have an application in which I\'m receiving a sms containing his location.On receiving sms it calls another activity to start and passes that location to that activity to

Answer 1

You can do it with a Handler like this

    Handler h = new Handler(){
        @Override
        public void handleMessage(Message msg) {

            Intent i = new Intent().setClass(ctx, MainActivity.class);                  
            startActivity(i);
        }           
    };

    h.sendEmptyMessageDelayed(0, 1500); // 1500 is time in miliseconds