How to change a TextView every second in Android

Question

I\'ve made a simple Android music player. I want to have a TextView that shows the current time in the song in minutes:seconds format. So the first thing I tried was to make

Answer 1

Use a Timer for this (instead of a while loop with a Thread.Sleep in it). See this article for an example of how to use a timer to update a UI element periodically:

Updating the UI from a timer

Edit: updated way-back link, thanks to Arialdo: http://web.archive.org/web/20100126090836/http://developer.android.com/intl/zh-TW/resources/articles/timed-ui-updates.html

Edit 2: non way-back link, thanks to gatoatigrado: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2007/11/stitch-in-time.html