Question

My current activity class “TimerAct.java” makes use of a timer of 30secs. Upon the completion of the timer a new activity “SMS.java” must be initiated. For this, in onFinish() i call a method of my current activity that starts the new activity. But i get a msg to “Force Close”. Can anyone help me out?

Here’s the code:

//TimerAct.java
public class TimerAct extends Activity
{
    static TextView timeDisplay;
    Timer t;
    int length = 30000;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.time);

        timeDisplay = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.timer);
        timeDisplay.setText("Time left: " + length / 1000);
        t = new Timer(length, 1000);
        t.start();
    }   

    public void mess()
    {
        Intent i = new Intent(this, SMS.class);
        startActivity(i);
    }
}

//Timer.java
public class Timer extends CountDownTimer
{
    public Timer(long millisInFuture, long countDownInterval)
    {
        super(millisInFuture, countDownInterval);
    }

    public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished)
    {
        TimerAct.timeDisplay.setText("Time left: " + millisUntilFinished / 1000);
    }

    public void onFinish()
    {
        TimerAct.timeDisplay.setText("Time over!!!");
        TimerAct ta = new TimerAct();
        ta.mess();
    }
}

//SMS.java
public class SMS extends Activity
{
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
        sendIntent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
        startActivity(sendIntent);

        String phoneNo = "9791192196";
        String message = "Hello";

        sendSMS(phoneNo, message);
    }

    //---sends an SMS message to another device---
    private void sendSMS(String phoneNumber, String message)
    {        
        PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, new Intent(this, SMS.class), 0);
        SmsManager sms = SmsManager.getDefault();
        sms.sendTextMessage(phoneNumber, null, message, pi, null);        
    }
}

Answer 1

In

public void onFinish()

Use something like:

        Intent fIntent = new Intent();
        fIntent.setClassName("com.pkgname", "com.pkgname.SMSActivity");
        startActivity(fIntent);    

Edit/Update:

You don’t need to extend a new CountDowntimer in a new class, you can directly override its methods which are required here.
You can have something like this as a member of class..

private CountDownTimer myTimer = new CountDownTimer(30000, 1000) {
//This will give you 30 sec timer with each tick at 1 second

    public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
        timeDisplay.setText("Time left: " + length / 1000);
    }

    public void onFinish() {
        timeDisplay.setText("Time over!!!");
        Intent fIntent = new Intent();
        fIntent.setClassName("com.pkgname", "com.pkgname.SMSActivity");
        startActivityForResult(fIntent,0);    
    }
 };

with this in onCreate() :

    TextView timeDisplay = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.timer);
    myTimer.start();