Question

I have a layout displayed on a button click.I want to hide that layout after 10 seconds.

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    mVolHandler = new Handler();
    mVolRunnable = new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            mVolLayout.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        }
    };
}


private OnTouchListener mVolPlusOnTouchListener = new OnTouchListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        mVolLayout.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        mVolHandler.postDelayed(mVolRunnable, 10000);
    }
}

Answer 1

Make use of Handler & Runnable.

You can delay a Runnable using postDelayed of Handler.

Runnable mRunnable;
Handler mHandler=new Handler();

mRunnable=new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                yourLayoutObject.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE); //If you want just hide the View. But it will retain space occupied by the View.
                yourLayoutObject.setVisibility(View.GONE); //This will remove the View. and free s the space occupied by the View    
            }
        };

Now inside onButtonClick event you have to tell Handler to run a runnable after X milli seconds:

mHandler.postDelayed(mRunnable,10*1000);

If you want to cancel this then you have to use mHandler.removeCallbacks(mRunnable);

Update (According to edited question)
You just need to remove callbacks from Handler using removeCallbacks()

So just update your code inside onTouch method like this :

mVolLayout.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
mVolHandler.removeCallbacks(mVolRunnable);
mVolHandler.postDelayed(mVolRunnable, 10000);