There was a blog with demo code for a timer some time ago: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2007/11/stitch-in-time.html
(oops, 2007.. am I getting old?) Peli www.openintents.org On Mar 30, 3:22 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > simonc wrote: > > Apparently the when you sleep() a thread it stops > > running for the time given. > > That is the definition of sleep(). ;-) > > > I'm using it to ensure that my internet connection isn't ever open for > > more than a minute something like this: > > > while (true) { > > if (getConnectionOpenTime()>1minute) { > > closeConneection(); > > } > > Thread.sleep()1000*60; > > } > > > The connection gets re-opened elsewhere so this needs to keep looping. > > If this is happening in an Activity, you can use View#postDelayed() to > schedule a Runnable to be executed after such-and-so delay. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
