Implementing counter in Android

Question

I have got an application where I need to show counter from 3 to 1 then quickly switch to another activity. Will TimerTask will be suitable for doing this? Can anybody show

Answer 1

Use CountDownTimer as shown below.

Step1: create CountDownTimer class

class MyCount extends CountDownTimer {
        public MyCount(long millisInFuture, long countDownInterval) {
            super(millisInFuture, countDownInterval);
        }

        public void onFinish() {
            dialog.dismiss();
           // Use Intent to Navigate from this activity to another
        }

        @Override
        public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        }
}

Step2: create an object for that class

MyCount counter = new MyCount(2000, 1000); // set your seconds
counter.start();