I recently wanted to call a method after some time for my project. What i rally wanted was, i have already created a splash screen for my app. And then after 5seconds or so i wanted to remain it in active and start another activity.( in fact MainActivity).

public void DoSomething()
{
     //do something here
}

IOS Approach For This Problem

Ex: In ios you will find a method called to do this task easilty

[self performSelector:@selector(DoSomething) withObject:nil afterDelay:5];

In Android what would be the best way to achieve this

I achieved this using java.util.concurrent package.

Here is the code

private static final ScheduledExecutorService worker = 
  Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor();

void someMethod() {
 
  Runnable task = new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
      /* Do something… */
    }
  };
  worker.schedule(task, 5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
  ⋮
}

Note:

1. worker.schedule(task, 5, TimeUnit.SECONDS); 

   Here i have set the delay to 5 seconds. 

2. /* Do something… */

   Insert your code to be run there after the given time exceeds.   

Android Hello World Example

When you create a new project, by default Google has included hello world code for you. But what happens behind the code is the important part.
 

1. Install Android SDK
2. Install ADT Eclipse plugin
3. Create an Android Virtual Device (AVD)
4. Create Android Project with Eclipse (Wizard)
5. Code it…
6. Start it in Android Virtual Device (AVD)

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