I am only scheduling two timers, both using different names etc. I'll look
into using postDelayed();
Thanks
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote:
> Why not use postDelayed()? It saves you a background thread, and your
> Runnable gets invoked on the main application thread (which will be
> necessary eventually for updating the ImageView or whatever the ad
> banner is).
>
> I haven't used Timer/TimerTask on Android. Nothing leaps out at me as
> being an issue with the code snippet, other than the background
> thread. Are you sure you're not accidentally scheduling lots of
> timers?
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Appaholics <raghavs...@appaholics.in>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am using the following to refresh my ad view every 30 seconds:
> >
> > Timer adTimer = new Timer("adUpdate");
> >
> > adTimer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {
> >
> > public void run(){
> >
> > myBanner.refresh();
> >
> > }
> >
> > }, 0, 30000);
> >
> > However, it refreshes every half second or so, if the LogCat output is to
> be
> > believed. What is wrong in my code. The app doesn't crash but the update
> > time isn't right.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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