Question

I am trying to set up a situation where I am waiting for a small period of time say 3 seconds and move on. But if the user clicks my on-screen button then move on as I would have anyway. Both events will trigger the same behaviour namely to update text on the screen. Any thoughts??

New to Android but mclovin’ it

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Try something like this:

private Thread thread;    

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.layoutxml);

    final MyActivity myActivity = this;   

    thread=  new Thread(){
        @Override
        public void run(){
            try {
                synchronized(this){
                    wait(3000);
                }
            }
            catch(InterruptedException ex){                    
            }

            // TODO              
        }
    };

    thread.start();        
}

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent evt)
{
    if(evt.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN)
    {
        synchronized(thread){
            thread.notifyAll();
        }
    }
    return true;
}    

It waits 3 seconds to continue but if the user touches the screen the thread is notified and it stops waiting.