How to make app wait and then start activity or go back?

Question

I want my activity to show a screen for 3 seconds, then go back to previous screen. But when i use

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                 


        

Answer 1

This is not the recommended way to do this. Using Thread.sleep you're blocking the main UI thread for 3000 milliseconds. This means that nothing in the activity will work until 3 seconds are passed.

Instead, you could do this: edited: now it works well.

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.welcome_layout);
    TextView tvResult = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1)
    new Thread(new Runnable()
    {
        @Override
        public void run()
        {
            try
            {
                Thread.sleep(3000);
                Intent i = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), myActivity.class);
                startActivity(i);
            }
            catch (InterruptedException e)
            {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }).start();
}