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 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 WAKE_UP_DELAY = 5000;
> private static final int WAKE_UP_CALL = 0;
> private Handler handler;
>
> private Runnable wakeUpCall = new Runnable() {
> @Override
> public void run() {
> handler.sendEmptyMessage(WAKE_UP_CALL);
> }
> };
>
> handler = new Handler(new Handler.Callback() {
> @Override
> public boolean handleMessage(Message msg) {
> if (msg.what==WAKE_UP_CALL) {
> // change message, your code goes here...
> // let's start the timer again
> handler.postDelayed(wakeUpCall,
> WAKE_UP_DELAY);
> return true;
> }
> return false;
> }
> }
> );
>
> handler.postDelayed(wakeUpCall, WAKE_UP_DELAY);
>
> // do something...
>
> The "// do something" part is the important difference to the
> Thread.sleep(). With the latter the app sleeps while with the my
> version the app can do whatever the app is supposed to do.
> And after a certain time (5 seconds in my example) you can change the
> message or whatever else there is to do.
>
> Emanuel Moecklin
> 1gravity LLC
> "A big bang experience for our customers!"
>
> On Nov 29, 2:55 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 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 going
> > > on during the 60 seconds that I'm waiting to complete, so AsyncTask
> > > doesn't seem to apply. Does someone have a generic code snippet that
> > > does this so that I can use it in other places as needed?
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