Android Question Can this code be improved?

[Deleted member 103]

Hi,

This code is meant to be a countdown timer that should trigger a beep every full second.
I've tried a "timer" and a "do while" loop, but the performance is not so good in both.

The beep has a delay of up to 2 hundredths of a second.
Is there a way to reduce this delay?

 

[ilan]

Well, with this trick I have now improved my code.
All you have to do is update the label "lblClock" every 100ms and the world looks completely different.
The timer now gives just as good results as the threading library.

Spoiler: test

*** Service (starter) Create ***
** Service (starter) Start **
** Activity (main) Create, isFirst = true **
** Activity (main) Resume **
Timer-IntervalMSec= 9999
b200.Beep
Timer-IntervalMSec= 8999
b200.Beep
Timer-IntervalMSec= 7999
b200.Beep
Timer-IntervalMSec= 6997
b200.Beep
Timer-IntervalMSec= 5999
b200.Beep
Timer-IntervalMSec= 4997
b200.Beep
Timer-IntervalMSec= 3999
b200.Beep
Timer-IntervalMSec= 2997
b200.Beep
Timer-IntervalMSec= 1996
b200.Beep
Timer-IntervalMSec= 997
b200.Beep
b500.Beep
This task took: 10004 ms
Thread-IntervalMSec= 9998
b200.Beep
Thread-IntervalMSec= 8999
b200.Beep
Thread-IntervalMSec= 7999
b200.Beep
Thread-IntervalMSec= 6997
b200.Beep
Thread-IntervalMSec= 5999
b200.Beep
Thread-IntervalMSec= 4997
b200.Beep
Thread-IntervalMSec= 3999
b200.Beep
Thread-IntervalMSec= 2997
b200.Beep
Thread-IntervalMSec= 2000
b200.Beep
Thread-IntervalMSec= 999
b200.Beep
b500.Beep
This task took: 10002 ms
** Service (smhomeclock) Start **

Yes changing the interval will give a whole different result.

The sleep function is also good enough when using 100ms. It is also simpler to handle.

 

[Deleted member 103]

The sleep function is also good enough when using 100ms. It is also simpler to handle.

Not really, because it does not happen that a beep at 10sec. comes, but only at 9.9sec.