How to pause / sleep thread or process in Android?

Question

I want to make a pause between two lines of code, Let me explain a bit:

-> the user clicks a button (a card in fact) and I show it by changing the background of thi

Answer 1

I use this:

Thread closeActivity = new Thread(new Runnable() {
  @Override
  public void run() {
    try {
      Thread.sleep(3000);
      // Do some stuff
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.getLocalizedMessage();
    }
  }
});