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Android Threads and Services Threads in Android Extending Thread

Posted by wesley franks
wesley franks
6,198 Points

Why can't the editor understand Thread.sleep?

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but the fact that I can't use Android Studio code in this editor is a bit frustrating.

The editor is saying that my code isn't right when it's the same code the teacher used.

MainActivity.java 
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    TwitterClient twitterClient = new TwitterClient();

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);


      DownloadThread thread = new DownloadThread();
      thread.setName("");
      thread.start();

    }

  public class DownloadThread extends Thread {


    @Override
    public void run() {
        for (String song: Playlist.songs) {
            downloadSong();
    }
    }

    private void downloadSong() {
        long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis() + 10*1000;
        while (System.currentTimeMillis() < endTime) {
            try {
                Thread.sleep(1000);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
}


}
wesley franks
wesley franks
6,198 Points

I've added the missing Playlist.songs just as an array inside DownloadThread called "songs".