how to display an activity automatically after 5 seconds

Question

In my application I have created a splash screen type of thing in android. It should remain for 5 seconds. My problem is that how I display another activity automatically af

Answer 1

TimerTask task = new TimerTask() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                Intent intent = new Intent(SplashScreen.this, MainMenu.class);
                startActivity(intent);
                finishscreen();
            }
        };
        Timer t = new Timer();
        t.schedule(task, 5000);

and

private void finishscreen() {
        this.finish();
    }