How to repeat a task after a fixed amount of time in android?

Question

I want to repeatedly call a method after every 5-seconds and whenever I wish to to stop the repeated call of the method I may stop or restart the repeated call of the method

Answer 1

Use a Handler in the onCreate() method. Its postDelayed() method causes the Runnable to be added to the message queue and to be run after the specified amount of time elapses (that is 0 in given example). Then this will queue itself after fixed rate of time (1000 milliseconds in this example).

Refer this code :

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    android.os.Handler customHandler = new android.os.Handler();
    customHandler.postDelayed(updateTimerThread, 0);
}

private Runnable updateTimerThread = new Runnable()
{
    public void run()
    {
        //write here whaterver you want to repeat
        customHandler.postDelayed(this, 1000);
    }
};