How to show a view for 3 seconds, and then hide it?
Spawn a separate thread that sleeps for 3 seconds then call runOnUiThread
to hide the view.
Thread thread = new Thread() {
@Override
public void run() {
try {
Thread.sleep(3000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
}
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
// Do some stuff
}
});
}
};
thread.start(); //start the thread
There is an easier way to do it: use View.postDelayed(runnable, delay)
View view = yourView;
view.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
view.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
}, 3000);
It's not very precise: may be hidden in 3.5 or 3.2 seconds, because it posts into the ui thread's message queue.
Use post() or runOnUiThread() just something as setTimeout().