Question

I am very new to the android platform thus java so i have a pretty basic question i am trying to make a simple second timer so here is the code i have written. I don’t know why but the method run never gets executed:

        Timer tmr = new Timer();
        tmr.schedule(new TimerTask()
        {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                TextView txt = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtLoading);
                counter++;
                txt.setText(counter);

            }

        }, 1000);

LE : actually it looks like it executing but the GUI doesn’t get updated … why ?

Answer 1

Using Timer like that creates a new Thread, and updating the GUI from a thread which is not the main thread is not a good idea.
A better approach is the one reported in this link: http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/timed-ui-updates.html

Hope it helps!