How can I wait for 10 second without locking application UI in android

Question

I am stuck with a problem  I want to wait 10 second because I want my application to start the code below after that 10 sec but without stopping that person from clicking anything else in the application  without calling Thread sleep       try         Log v  msg    WAIT CheckFrequencyRun          Thread sleep 10000      giving time to connect to wifi              catch  InterruptedException e             TODO Auto-generated catch block       e printStackTrace                if no network     if wifiManager getConnectionInfo   getNetworkId    -1           stop wifi       wifiManager setWifiEnabled false         Log v  msg    no connection          handler postDelayed this  checkInterval               else connection     else        Log v  msg    connection          onDestroy

User · Answer

do this on a new thread  seperate it from main thread    new Thread new Runnable           Override      public void run                TODO Auto-generated method stub           run

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You can use this   Handler handler   new Handler    handler postDelayed new Runnable         public void run             Actions to do after 10 seconds          10000     For Stop the Handler  You can try this  handler removeCallbacksAndMessages null

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You never want to call thread sleep   on the UI thread as it sounds like you have figured out  This freezes the UI and is always a bad thing to do  You can use a separate Thread and postDelayed  This SO answer shows how to do that as well as several other options  Handler  TimerTask  You can look at these and see which will work best for your particular situation

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1with handler   handler sendEmptyMessageDelayed 1  10000      private Handler handler   new Handler          Override     public void handleMessage Message msg            if  msg what    1                 your code

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