How to Reduce Thread.sleep() Latency in Android

Question

I am generating timing events in a loop in a (non-UI) thread in an Android application, and I need those events to occur at precise intervals in time, (precise here means no

Answer 1

I'm using delayed messages with Handler for similar purpose. It can be little overkill. In you case I would take a look to Timer class.

mTimer = new Timer();
mTimer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        Log.v("TEST", " tick");
    }
}, 0, 250);

This gives me latency +-2 millisecs at emulator.