Display Activity for 5 seconds.

[Hardik Trivedi]

Hi all,

I want to display one activity which has one ImageView displaying an image. I want to display that just for 5 seconds the move on to another activity.

I tried using thread mechanism. But did not work.
Following is my code.

package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;

public class Welcome extends Activity 
{
	private Runnable runnable;
	private static final String TAG="Welcome";
	
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        
        runnable=new Runnable() {
			
			@Override
			public void run() {
				try
				{
					Log.v(TAG,"Going to sleep...");
					Thread.sleep(3000);
					Log.v(TAG,"Going to wake up...");
					
				}
				catch(Exception e)
				{
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			}
		};
		try
		{
			Thread t=new Thread(null,runnable);
			t.start();
			Intent i=new Intent(this,Choices.class);
		        startActivity(i);
		}
		catch(Exception e)
		{
			
		}
       
    }
}

Please help.

[Ankit Garg]

I don't understand how you are expecting that code to work. You are starting a new thread which is sleeping for 3 seconds and then dying. That won't stop the main thread to stop. What might work for you is you start the intent inside the thread that you started...

[Hardik Trivedi]

Hi Ankit,

I triead that too.It gives The constructor Intent(new Runnable(){}, Class<Choices>) is undefined error.
Can you tell me what this error is. And Is there any inner mechanism to display activity for specific time period.

[Monu Tripathi]

Hardik Trivedi wrote:Hi Ankit,

I triead that too.It gives The constructor Intent(new Runnable(){}, Class<Choices>) is undefined error.
Can you tell me what this error is. And Is there any inner mechanism to display activity for specific time period.

You need to pass a Context as first argument to the Intent constructor; instead you passed a Runnable.
For e.g.: you can move the following two lines inside run after the sleep call:

Intent i=new Intent(Welcome.this.getApplicationContext(),Choices.class);  
startActivity(i);  

[Hardik Trivedi]

Thank you. It works fine.