View.postDelayed() simply calls Handler.postDelayed(). It's a convenient method that helps avoid creating Handler instances.
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Pankaj Chawla <[email protected]> wrote: > In order to update a UI control (TextView) periodically, I create a > Runnable which updates the control but instead of creating an explicit > Handler and posting the runnable to that, I post the runnable directly to > the control. I find the later to be simple but most readings on the web > seem to be using an explicit Handler object. Any reasons, I should be > careful about? > > Runnable runnable = new Runnable() { > > @Override > > public void run() { > > textview.setText(String.valueOf(counter)); > > textview.postDelayed(runnable, 20000); > > } > > }; > > > @Override > > public void onResume() { > > super.onResume(); > > textview.post(runnable); > > } > > > @Override > > public void onPause() { > > super.onPause(); > > textview.removeCallbacks(runnable); > > } > > --- > Take care, > Pankaj > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer [email protected] -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
