How to pause / sleep thread or process in Android?

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I want to make a pause between two lines of code, Let me explain a bit:

-> the user clicks a button (a card in fact) and I show it by changing the background of this button: 

thisbutton.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.icon);

-> after let's say 1 second, I need to go back to the previous state of the button by changing back its background: 

thisbutton.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.defaultcard);

-> I've tried to pause the thread between these two lines of code with:

try {
    Thread.sleep(1000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}

However, this does not work. Maybe it's the process and not the Thread that I need to pause?

I've also tried (but it doesn't work):

new Reminder(5);

With this:

public class Reminder {

Timer timer;

        public Reminder(int seconds) {
            timer = new Timer();
            timer.schedule(new RemindTask(), seconds*1000);
        }

        class RemindTask extends TimerTask {
            public void run() {
                System.out.format("Time's up!%n");
                timer.cancel(); //Terminate the timer thread
            }
        }  
    }

How can I pause/sleep the thread or process?

multithreading process android
12 Answers

I use this:

Thread closeActivity = new Thread(new Runnable() {
  @Override
  public void run() {
    try {
      Thread.sleep(3000);
      // Do some stuff
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.getLocalizedMessage();
    }
  }
});
user_12939780

Or you could use:

android.os.SystemClock.sleep(checkEvery)

which has the advantage of not requiring a wrapping try ... catch.

user_91822330

If you use Kotlin and coroutines, you can simply do

GlobalScope.launch {
   delay(3000) // In ms
   //Code after sleep
}

And if you need to update UI

GlobalScope.launch {
  delay(3000)
  GlobalScope.launch(Dispatchers.Main) {
    //Action on UI thread
  }
}
user_96437840

I know this is an old thread, but in the Android documentation I found a solution that worked very well for me...

new CountDownTimer(30000, 1000) {

    public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
        mTextField.setText("seconds remaining: " + millisUntilFinished / 1000);
    }

    public void onFinish() {
        mTextField.setText("done!");
    }
}.start();

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/CountDownTimer.html

Hope this helps someone...

user_41700220 
  class MyActivity{
    private final Handler handler = new Handler();
    private Runnable yourRunnable;
    protected void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
       // ....
       this.yourRunnable = new Runnable() {
               @Override
               public void run() {
                   //code
               }
            };

        this.handler.postDelayed(this.yourRunnable, 2000);
       }


     @Override
  protected void onDestroy() {
      // to avoid memory leaks
      this.handler.removeCallbacks(this.yourRunnable);
      }
    }

And to be double sure you can be combined it with the "static class" method as described in the tronman answer

user_67333150
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