You may want to look at CountDownTime also. It seems to work fine
(even when the Screen goes off).
I took the following from the web:
public class MyCount extends CountDownTimer {
public MyCount(long millisInFuture, long countDownInterval) {
super(millisInFuture, countDownInterval);
}
public void onFinish() {
counter = new MyCount(5000, 1000);
counter.start ();
}
public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
tv.setText("Hal:" + timer.getTime());
}
}
The timer component uses a "Live" Jt component (separate thread):
private void timer() {
JtFactory main = new JtFactory ();
// Create the component
timer = (Timer) main.createObject (Timer.JtCLASS_NAME);
// Asynchronous processing of messages.
main.setSynchronous(false);
main.sendMessage (timer, new JtMessage (Timer.UPDATE_TIME));
}
.....
counter = new MyCount(5000, 1000);
counter.start();
setContentView(tv);
.......
On Nov 20, 3:58 pm, Paul Townsend <[email protected]> wrote:
> I made a simple countdown timer and it works as expected when plugged
> in via usb for debugging but when I take it off debugging and the
> screen goes off either time out or power button the handler fails to
> fire at the end time. I have created a custom timer class that gets
> created from the main activity when needed, because its able to have
> multiple countdowns running at the same time. Am I right in thinking
> that the handler just gets paused when the screen goes off and if so
> what are my alternatives. The activity is still in the foreground and
> I assumed the handler would still fire if the screen goes off.
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