Question

Is there a timer functionality or timer that is a subclass of View in android that can be use to keep track the playing time of the user?

If I must build one, is it good to build a Thread or Runnable class that have a loop that put itself to sleep for 1000ms (Thread.sleep(1000)) then update itself. e.g.

public class TimerThread extends Runnable{

    private int time;
    boolean run = true;

    public void run(){
        while(run){
            //update the View here
            Thread.sleep(1000);
            time++;
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

This might be helpful.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Chronometer.html

I think you might need to Google for an example never really used it myself but I’ve heard of it.