Android Question While Sleep vs Timer

NJDude

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• Nov 14, 2017

• #2

Use a timer, timers do not hold the main thread.

 

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DonManfred

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• Nov 14, 2017

• #3

What do you want to archieve?

 

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Emme Developer

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• Nov 14, 2017

• #4

DonManfred said:

What do you want to archieve?

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Nothing special, only want to understand which is heavier on the computational level

 

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Erel

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• Nov 14, 2017

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Sleep also doesn't hold the main thread. The performance of both will be very similar.

Advantage of Timer is that you can enable or disable it.
Advantage of Sleep is that you can run it inside the current sub.

Use whichever one is more convenient for you.

 

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