If you want to check something periodically, I suggest using a THREAD,
i.e.,

class AThread extends Thread{
public void run(){
while (true){
//do something
sleep(1000);
}
}
}

AThread thread = new AThread();
thread.start();

On Aug 4, 2:49 pm, Alex Mendez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I'm new on Android and I just made my first application openning
> a
> new Activity with a button and some other stuff but now I want to do
> something that have to be refreshed every little time or as fast as
> possible like a counter.
> When you program in C or Java you can make a loop and a counter
> adding
> 1 so yo can see 1.. 2 .. 3 ...4 .... I would like to be able to do
> that when the program is in the foreground. I've tried this code but
> it wont even start I get the has stopped unexpectivly when I try to
> execute it in the emulator. I also tried with the onStart method and
> a
> method I made my own and calling it from the onCreate but I get the
> same error.
>  What I really want to do is to get the sound level in the mic while
> the program is running, I have the code for that but I don't know how
> to make it check the sound level periodically.
> Thank you.
> package android.manual1;
> import android.app.Activity;
> import android.os.Bundle;
> import android.view.View;
> import android.widget.TextView;
> public class Manual1 extends Activity {
>     /** Called when the activity is first created. */
>     //@Override
>     static private int variable = 1;
>     public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
>         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
>         setContentView(R.layout.main);
>     }
>    public void onResume (){
>         TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.count);
>         do{
>                 text.setText("Contador:"+variable);
>                 variable=variable+1;
>         }while (variable<100);
>     }
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