How to use TimerTask with lambdas?

Question

As you hopefully know you can use lambdas in Java 8, for example to replace anonymous methods.

An example can be seen here of Java 7 vs Java 8:

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Answer 1

To complete Marko Topolnik's answer about Timer, you just have to call schedule method with a lambda.

schedule(() -> {
    System.out.println("Task #1 is running");
}, 500);