Last Updated: February 25, 2016

Delay execution in Android

We want do something later sometimes, usually we implement it using Timer, however, we can use Hanlder to do it easily.

protected final void doSomething() {
 // do some thing here
}

protected final void doSomething(long duration) {
 Message msg = Message.obtain(mHandler, DO_SOMETHING);
 mHandler.sendMessageDelayed(msg, duration);
}

protected Handler mHandler = new Handler() {

 @Override
 public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
 if (msg.what == DO_SOMETHING) {
 doSomething();
 }
 }
};

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