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

You have to put this code inside the activity you want to call every 5 seconds

final Runnable tarea = new Runnable() {   public void run() {
hola_mundo();//the operation that you want to perform }}; 
ScheduledExecutorService timer = Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor();
timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(tarea, 5, 5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);