How to pause / sleep thread or process in Android?

Question

I want to make a pause between two lines of code, Let me explain a bit:

-> the user clicks a button (a card in fact) and I show it by changing the background of thi

Answer 1

This is my example

Create a Java Utils

    import android.app.ProgressDialog;
    import android.content.Context;
    import android.content.Intent;

    public class Utils {

        public static void showDummyWaitingDialog(final Context context, final Intent startingIntent) {
            // ...
            final ProgressDialog progressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(context, "Please wait...", "Loading data ...", true);

            new Thread() {
                public void run() {
                    try{
                        // Do some work here
                        sleep(5000);
                    } catch (Exception e) {
                    }
                    // start next intent
                    new Thread() {
                        public void run() {
                        // Dismiss the Dialog 
                        progressDialog.dismiss();
                        // start selected activity
                        if ( startingIntent != null) context.startActivity(startingIntent);
                        }
                    }.start();
                }
            }.start();  

        }

    }