PostDelayed() inside onFinish() in CountDownTimer

Question

I need to use postDelayed() method inside onFinish() method of the CountDownTimer. I use the following code:

...
public void onFinish() {
 Handler handler = new Handler();
 handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
 @Override
 public void run() {
 //do something here after 3 seconds
 }
 }, 3000);
}

But it does not work. It does not delay.

Answer 1

It's not going to work. You will have to find another way to accomplish your goal. The reason why, is because your post delayed is ran on a different thread then the onFinish. onFinish will run on the UI tread. After onFinish is ran the class will be closed out and the postDelayed thread will be no more.

• Mike087: So, what is the best aproach to accomplish that?
• Drivers Sea: Can you expand a little more on what your actual goal is?
• Drivers Sea: perhaps you can make a custom finish method. Then when you try to finish the class, call your customer finish method that calls finish internally after the 3 second thread is done.