Question

I have a progress dialog which is shown during some running action.

If the action hasn’t executed for a given time, I want to dismiss the dialog and the action. How do I implement this?

I currently have these two methods, which stop and start my async action and dialog:

private void startAction()
{
    if (!actionStarted) {
        showDialog(DIALOG_ACTION);
        runMyAsyncTask();
        actionStarted = true;
    }
}

private void stopAction()
{
    if (actionStarted) {
        stopMyAsyncTask();
        actionStarted = false;
        dismissDialog(DIALOG_ACTION);
    }
}

i.e. I want to do something like this when the time is out:

onTimesOut()
{
    stopAction();
    doSomeOtherThing();
}

Answer 1

You can make a simple timer:

Timer timer = new Timer();
TimerTask task = new TimerTask() {

    @Override
    public void run() {
        stopAction();
    }
};

timer.schedule(task, 1000);