Equivalent to javax.swing.Timer in Android

Question

Is there something that looks like the javax.swing.Timer on Android. I know how to create own Threads, but is there something that is like the swing-timer?

Answer 1

You are probably looking for the class android.os.CountDownTimer

You can inherit the class like this:

class MyTimer extends CountDownTimer
{
    public MyTimer(int secsInFuture) {
        super(secsInFuture*1000, 1000); //interval/ticks each second.
    }

    @Override
    public void onFinish() {
        Log.d("mytag","timer finished!");
    }

    @Override
    public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
        //fired on each interval
        Log.d("mytag","tick; " + millisUntilFinished + " ms left");
    }
}