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 TimerTask to call after specific time interval

    Timer timer = new Timer();
    timer.schedule(new UpdateTimeTask(),1, TimeInterval);

and

  class UpdateTimeTask extends TimerTask {

        public void run() 
           {        
            // do stufff
           }

        }