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

  class MyActivity{
    private final Handler handler = new Handler();
    private Runnable yourRunnable;
    protected void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
       // ....
       this.yourRunnable = new Runnable() {
               @Override
               public void run() {
                   //code
               }
            };

        this.handler.postDelayed(this.yourRunnable, 2000);
       }


     @Override
  protected void onDestroy() {
      // to avoid memory leaks
      this.handler.removeCallbacks(this.yourRunnable);
      }
    }

And to be double sure you can be combined it with the "static class" method as described in the tronman answer