Question

I have following timer:

Timer timer = new Timer();
timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {

    @Override
    public void run() {
        --mTimer;
        mTimeLeft.setText(String.valueOf(mTimer));
    }

}, 0, 1000);

Text in the TextView will change when I touch the screen.

How can I refresh the TextView programatically?

Answer 1

I think this article will help you. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2007/11/stitch-in-time.html
Basically you want to use the Handler class provided in the SDK. You shouldn’t need to call invalidate like someone else suggested because setText does that for you.
Hope this helps!