[android-developers] What Cancels Timer and TimerTasks?

2011-01-30 Thread bklik
I'm trying to write an egg timer application. Here's what I have: * An Activity that has the UI for adding timer and displaying time remaining * A Service that has a Timer/TimerTask which controls the countdown When I set a really long time, say nine hours and go to bed, somewhere in the night

Re: [android-developers] What Cancels Timer and TimerTasks?

2011-01-30 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Brenton, I'm having a sense of deja vu, but here again are some points about timers in Android. A Java Timer / TimerTask is not really good for an Android application: - TimerTasks are invoked on a background thread, this creates an inconvenience if you need to touch the UI, since UI