How to automatically Click a Button in Android after a 5 second delay

Question

I have a small Android application that automatically clicks the button after 5 seconds. I have used performClick(); but this does not work. When the timer gets

Answer 1

You should post your logcat that includes the error message but one issue might be that you are accessing a UI element off the UI thread which isn't a good idea.

To do what you want you really don't need another thread. You can use a Handler and a delayed Runnable instead like below.

new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        button1.performClick();
    }
}, 5000);

This will schedule the Runnable to be executed on the UI thread after 5 seconds. If that still crashes post the stack trace from logcat.