Update TextView every second in Android [duplicate]

Answer 1

Try this code Initialize textview in

onCreate
   timer=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.timerText);


public void loopMethod(int m){

 if(m>=1000){
  try {

    System.out.println(m);
    m=m-1000;

    final ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor c = new ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor(1);
            c.schedule(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    timer.setText(""+m);//timer is a textview
                      c.shutdownNow();

                }
            }, 1, TimeUnit.SECONDS);





} catch(InterruptedException ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace();
}
loopMethod(m);
}
}