How to stop a timer after certain number of times

Question

Trying to use a Timer to do run this 4 times with intervals of 10 seconds each.

I have tried stopping it with a loop, but it keeps crashing. Have tried

Answer 1

Why not use an AsyncTask and just have it Thread.sleep(10000) and the publishProgress in a while loop? Here is what it would look like:

new AsyncTask() {

        @Override
        protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {

            int i = 0;
            while(i < 4) {
                Thread.sleep(10000);
                //Publish because onProgressUpdate runs on the UIThread
                publishProgress();
                i++;
            }

            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            return null;
        }
        @Override
        protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {
            super.onProgressUpdate(values);
            //This is run on the UIThread and will actually Toast... Or update a View if you need it to!
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "test", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }

    }.execute();

Also as a side note, for longer term repetitive tasks, consider using AlarmManager...