Question

I would like to change the background image of a frame layout per second. For this task I use timer and timertask classes but it does not seem to work as the initial background never changes and the pyhsical device that I test the following code terminates abnormally.

    FrameLayout fl;
List<Integer> myList;
int i = 0;
TimerTask myTimerTask = new TimerTask()
{
    public void run()
    {
        fl.setBackgroundResource(myList.get(i));
        i++;
    }
};


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

    myList = new ArrayList<Integer>();
    myList.add(R.drawable.square1);
    myList.add(R.drawable.square2);
    myList.add(R.drawable.square3);
    myList.add(R.drawable.square4);
    myList.add(R.drawable.square5);
    myList.add(R.drawable.square6);
    myList.add(R.drawable.square7);
    myList.add(R.drawable.square8);
    myList.add(R.drawable.square9);
    myList.add(R.drawable.square10);
    myList.add(R.drawable.square11);
    myList.add(R.drawable.square12);



    fl = (FrameLayout)findViewById(R.id.frameLayout1);

    long delay = 1000;
    long period = 1000;

    Timer t = new Timer();
    t.schedule(myTimerTask,delay,period);


}

Where do I fail ? ^^
Thanks in advance for your time.

Answer 1

You should call invalidate() after setting the new background resource.