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

If you use Kotlin and coroutines, you can simply do

GlobalScope.launch {
   delay(3000) // In ms
   //Code after sleep
}

And if you need to update UI

GlobalScope.launch {
  delay(3000)
  GlobalScope.launch(Dispatchers.Main) {
    //Action on UI thread
  }
}