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Android

Ben Morse
Ben Morse
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Posted by Ben Morse
Ben Morse
6,068 Points

Anyone messed with Handler().postDelayed ??

Hi everyone,

I'm creating a splash screen for the android app that i'm building. I was looking up examples of this code and saw most of the examples use this Handler().postDelayed. I wanted to see if someone can example this method Handler() a bit more then what android website had to offer

Here is the code if you are interested

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;

public class Splash extends Activity {

    /** Duration of wait **/
    private final int SPLASH_DISPLAY_LENGTH = 1000;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
        super.onCreate(icicle);
        setContentView(R.layout.splashscreen);

        /* New Handler to start the Menu-Activity 
         * and close this Splash-Screen after some seconds.*/
        new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable(){
            @Override
            public void run() {
                /* Create an Intent that will start the Menu-Activity. */
                Intent mainIntent = new Intent(Splash.this,Menu.class);
                Splash.this.startActivity(mainIntent);
                Splash.this.finish();
            }
        }, SPLASH_DISPLAY_LENGTH);
    }
}