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

I know this is an old thread, but in the Android documentation I found a solution that worked very well for me...

new CountDownTimer(30000, 1000) {

    public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
        mTextField.setText("seconds remaining: " + millisUntilFinished / 1000);
    }

    public void onFinish() {
        mTextField.setText("done!");
    }
}.start();

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/CountDownTimer.html

Hope this helps someone...