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Can't understand disable button behavior

I'm new to android and pretty new to the concept of timing in Java also. I've tried to create a simple app that counts the number of user clicks on the screen in five seconds. After the time ends, I want to disable the button and restart everything when clicking the 'Restart' button.
This is the current code:
public void clickCounter(View view){
++counter;
if(showCounter!=null)
showCounter.setText(Integer.toString(counter));
}
public void clickTimer(final View view) {
final Button Tap = findViewById(R.id.Tap);
clickCounter(view);
new CountDownTimer(5000, 5000) {
public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
}
public void onFinish() {
Tap.setEnabled(false);
}
}.start();
}
public void restartCounter(View view) {
counter=0;
showCounter.setText("Tap");
final Button Tap = findViewById(R.id.Tap);
Tap.setEnabled(true);
}
The button does disable after 5 seconds, but the restart button sometimes enables and then disables it right away (the counter and text changes properly).
I think the problem might be the way I'm using the Timer to do it (maybe I should use threads?)

You are creating a new timer on every button tap. So, when you reenable the button, one of your timers could be expiring, disabling the button afterwards. You should only create a new timer if there is none running.

To expand on Tiago Loureino's awesome answer, the problem is that you are creating a new CountDownTimer object every time the clickTimer() method is called.
The button does disable after 5 seconds, but the restart button sometimes enables and then disables it right away (the counter and text changes properly).
This 👆🏽 happens because you have several CountDownTimers executing their onFinish() method.
The solution to this problem is to have one single instance of your CountDownTimer. To put that in code, you can declare your CountDownTimer as below:
public CountDownTimer cdt = new CountDownTimer(5000, 5000) {
public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
}
public void onFinish() {
Tap.setEnabled(false);
}
};
You can then call cdt.start() anytime you want to start your the timer.

Prevent this from happening with the ountdown timer function

I have this code in android studio:
The question is that if I give the button back and the main activity takes me, that is going to continue executing.
How do I make it so that once it's behind, it does not run what's in the onfinished?
new CountDownTimer (40000,1000) {
#Override
public void onTick(long l)
{
crono.setText("00:"+l/1000);
if(contador==10)
{
}
}
#Override
public void onFinish()
{
if(value.equals("tiempo"))
{
crono.setText("00:00");
}
else
{
esperar();
}
}
}.start();

CountDownTimer class help us to implement timer with custom time interval and duration. It provide 2 callback onTick(int millisUntilFinished) which called after each interval and onFinish is called when time duration is completed.
If you want to stop countdown then store instance countdown and call countdown.cancel() in onDestroy or button click(any where by user action)
You can refer this

android COuntDownTimer stop and start new one

the program that i am making includes two different count down.
first, user has to type in the password within the time limit and press a button. If user can't input the password before the time limit, then it is over. However, if the user was able to input the password correctly before the time limit, a new timer should start.
public class MalibuCountDownTimer extends CountDownTimer
{
public MalibuCountDownTimer(long startTime, long interval)
{
super(startTime, interval);
}
#Override
public void onFinish()
{
if(hasPlanted == false) {
text.setText("Time's up!");
mTextView.setText("cya");
btnEnable(false);
startB.setEnabled(false);
}
}
#Override
public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished)
{
text.setText(""+String.format("%02d:%02d:%03d",
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millisUntilFinished) - TimeUnit.HOURS.toMinutes(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(millisUntilFinished)),
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(millisUntilFinished) - TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millisUntilFinished)),
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMillis(millisUntilFinished) - TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(millisUntilFinished))
));
}
}
this is the first timer, and it is working just fine. However, i am having trouble trying to stop this timer when user entered the correct password.
I have created another class of CountDownTimer, and when the user input the correct password within the time limit, the second timer starts. I put a boolean to stop the first timer to do anything when it ends, but I have no idea how I can fully stop that counter.

if(myTimer != null) {
myTimer.cancel();
myTimer = null;
}
This is in order to cancel the timer early. First check if it is null, and if it isn't, apply the cancel method on it. Let me know if this was helpful.
:)

First you have to create service and call that service in main class where timer is running and call the onReceive method
BroadcastReceiver br = new BroadcastReceiver() {
#Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
//Here you check the timer is running or not
timer.cancel();
}
};

Android Countdown Timer in Broadcast receiver doesn't update TextView

I am creating application which works with SMS service and FTP networking.
If user does not establish connectivity, it will try to reconnect again in 30 seconds.
I am using CountDownTimer with TextView to inform user about time left to reconnnect.
Either it will be successful or it will start counting again.
My problem is, that if counter restarts while activity is in background or the screen is locked, TextView keeps showing number "1" (it won't update) until the timer restarts again in foreground (but updating numbers without timer restart works fine in backround or lock, I am using wakelock in my foreground service).
After counter restarts again (so it won't stop counting) while application is in foreground, everything comes back to normal, TextView updates from freezed "1" to "30" and starts counting down to "1".
I think problem will be somewhere in communication between counter thread and background activity with UI, but I don't know nothing more about it.
I tried several things like:
creating setter and getter for miliseconds and update them in each
tick, then try to update textview from onReume(), didn't work.
create local variable for TextView inside timer, initialize it inside onTick() and
try to update text from there, also didn't work.
Thanks everyone for help, I will appriciate any advices.
Part of code relative to question:
private CountDownTimer cdt = null;
private final TextView getTextView_ActivityMainMenu_Timer(){
return (TextView) findViewById(R.id.ActivityMainMenu_TextView_Timer);
}
private BroadcastReceiver broadcastReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
#Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
if(intent.getBooleanExtra("KEY_FAILED", false)){
cdt = new CountDownTimer(30000, 1000) {
public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
getTextView_ActivityMainMenu_Timer().setText("" + millisUntilFinished / 1000);
}
public void onFinish() {
;
}
}
.start();
}
else
{
if(cdt != null)
cdt.cancel();
}
}
};

Finally I found solution of this problem. I didn't realize that I am unregistering the receiver in onPause() method. So I had to change it and put registration of broadcast into onResume() and unregister it only in onDestroy() method.

timer.scheduleAtFixedRate does not stop when i call cancel

At onCreate, I run a task that repeats every minute. Here how I do it:
myTimer = new Timer();
int delay = 30000; // delay for 30 sec.
int period = 600000; // repeat every 60 sec.
doThis = new TimerTask() {
public void run() {
Log.v("TImer","repeated");
wv.reload();
}
};
myTimer.scheduleAtFixedRate(doThis, delay, period);
All that code is in onCreate. So, when the app goes off from the screen, I can see in logcat that timer steel runs, and will not stop unless the app will be destroyed. So, in onPause of activity I call myTimer.cancel(); but it didnt help. I still can see updates in logcat, even when the app is not on the screen. So, how to stop timerTask?

Here is your code put into my file, with the values delay and period tweaked so I don't have to wait so long. I run the app. I see the messages in LogCat. I press the home button on my Galaxy S3. Then the messages stop in LogCat.
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
Timer myTimer;
TimerTask doThis;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
myTimer = new Timer();
int delay = 0; // delay for 30 sec.
int period = 1000; // repeat every 60 sec.
doThis = new TimerTask() {
public void run() {
Log.v("TImer","repeated");
}
};
myTimer.scheduleAtFixedRate(doThis, delay, period);
}
#Override
protected void onPause() {
myTimer.cancel();
super.onPause();
}
}

It could be that since the thread has already been sent out, it runs one last time. In the onLoad set a variable to true, then in the onPause set it to false. Then in your timer task only run your code if the variable is true.
Write to the log outside of the new if statement though. If it is indeed running it just one last time, then that might be your solution. But if it is still running it over and over multiple times after the onPause then don't take my solution.

The actual answer is: The onPause method needs to be defined correctly.
The whole story:
The questioner defined the onPause method wrong. That was the reason for asking this question.
I'm writing this because I spent too much time reading question, answers, code and comments. The real answer was hidden in the last comment.