[android-developers] Re: What's the best way to have your app 'sleep' for N milliseconds?

2010-12-06 Thread Jeff M.
Inside your MyActivity.onCreate method: Handler timeoutHandler = new Handler() { //@Override public void handleMessage( Message msg ) { // after receiving the timeout message, start the next activity Intent intent = new Intent( MyActivity.this, MyOtherActivity.class );

Re: [android-developers] Re: What's the best way to have your app 'sleep' for N milliseconds?

2010-12-06 Thread Alberto Ivo
Thread.sleep ( 1000 ) will make the app pause for AT LEAST 1 sec. Not exactly 1 sec. Thread is not guaranteed. Ivo On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:55 PM, dipti dvai...@gmail.com wrote: You can use java's Thread.sleep(1000) . This will make the application pause for 1 sec ( 1000 millisec ) On Nov

[android-developers] Re: What's the best way to have your app 'sleep' for N milliseconds?

2010-12-01 Thread Doug
On Nov 30, 7:50 am, Emanuel Moecklin 1gravity...@gmail.com wrote: I would recommend using something like: This was actually unnecessarily complex. There's no need to post a whole new runnable to a handler that, in turn, sends a message to the same handler. You can just send the delayed message

[android-developers] Re: What's the best way to have your app 'sleep' for N milliseconds?

2010-12-01 Thread Emanuel Moecklin
You are right: private static final int WAKE_UP_DELAY = 5000; private static final int WAKE_UP_CALL = 0; private Handler handler; handler = new Handler(new Handler.Callback() { @Override public boolean handleMessage(Message msg) {

[android-developers] Re: What's the best way to have your app 'sleep' for N milliseconds?

2010-11-30 Thread Emanuel Moecklin
The Thread.sleep(1000) is probably not the best idea on Android because responsiveness is an issue if you care about user ratings ;-). With Thread.sleep() the app just sit's there and waits and won't respond to user input. I would recommend using something like: private static final int

[android-developers] Re: What's the best way to have your app 'sleep' for N milliseconds?

2010-11-30 Thread Kumar Bibek
Whatever the case is, you cannor prevent the user to press the Home key to display the Homescreen, right? If you don't care about the Home button, then I guess, an Activity or a dialog should be fine. On Nov 30, 8:50 pm, Emanuel Moecklin 1gravity...@gmail.com wrote: The Thread.sleep(1000) is

[android-developers] Re: What's the best way to have your app 'sleep' for N milliseconds?

2010-11-29 Thread dipti
You can use java's Thread.sleep(1000) . This will make the application pause for 1 sec ( 1000 millisec ) On Nov 29, 6:49 am, charlest stevegut...@gmail.com wrote: I want to display a message on the screen, have it displayed for 60 seconds, then display another message. There is nothing specific