Android : Countdown Timer App That Actually Works?
Oct 1, 2009
I was rather surprised to find a couple of features missing from android, having just moved from a sony-ericsson w200i (a phone which i bought for a fifth of the price of my new galaxy), in which these features seemed obvious
i did get tone picker to sort out the lacking ringtone settings etc. but when i tried to find a simple countdown app i hit a bit of a wall
from the ones i tested out, "oi countdown" and "countdown alarm" seemed to work ok up until the point the alarm rang and i couldn't shut the thing up in any other way than booting the whole phone
"snappy countdown timer" is the closest i've found for a simple app to remind you when your pizza is done, but that has the annoying issue of the ui being way too sensitive to pick a specific time (on minute-scale)
so is there a simple app to do the job of an egg timer that actually works?
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Jan 23, 2009
I've created an app that functions as a countdown timer via a thread, a wakelock, and a handler back to my activity. My question is, what will cause my thread to die, or app to not be running in memory anymore? I've had this happen once, and can't seem to recreate it again.
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Feb 27, 2012
As a part of my app I would like to include a countdown timer.
I would much rather have the timer count in minutes and seconds, so any good tutorial to set such a timer up I would rather they point me in that direction first (I have looked)
My problem is that I'm getting this error when I press the button to open the activity
02-27 21:07:47.776: E/AndroidRuntime(711): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception
02-27 21:07:47.786: E/AndroidRuntime(711): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{converter.units.kitchen/converter.units.kitchen.Timer}: java.lang.NullPointerException
I currently have the following java activity
import
android.app.Activity;
import
android.os.Bundle;
import
android.os.CountDownTimer;
import
[code]....
It was working fine when I had a fixed number as the starting value, although since reverting to a fixed number it still does not work.
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Nov 8, 2013
One thing that really bothers me about Google Now on a mobile device is that if you say "Set a timer for 'x' minutes" it will set an alarm (vs a countdown timer) for 'x' minutes into the future. If you say the same command to Google Search on Chrome on a PC it will set a countdown timer. I would really like it if I could just say "Okay Google (Now)... Set a timer for 10 minutes" and then have it start counting down.
Does KK updates Google Now to the ability to set a timer?
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Jan 7, 2012
Is there any way to define countdown timer without specifying millisInFuture. i.e to have a countdown timer which stops only when explicitly stop() function called.
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Aug 1, 2012
Trying to create a simple 1 minute timer. I want it to start once a user hits a button (in this case the button's ID is 'Tap'), and at 00:00, I want a message to popup. I also have a reset button, when a user clicks that I want it to reset to 1:00.
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Jan 6, 2010
Anyone have experience with a good countdown timer that works well with Droid? I think I downloaded the "Ultimate Stopwatch" once and it didn't work well (The alarm sound was way too soft). There are dozens of timer apps, and it seems people have various problems with all of them, aside from maybe a few pay ones. But I just want something really simple. Just for timing things like cooking stuff in the oven and poker games. Any suggestions?
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Jul 30, 2010
Is the alarm on the installed countdown timer really really low on everyone else's phone? I use the same style ringer for my alarm clock and timer. The clock is fine, but the timer alarm is so low it can barely be heard at the highest setting, 7. Is this normal?
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Sep 20, 2010
I want to run an countdown time , in which i want to show days,hours,sec and millisecond remaining for a specific date. and will be be keep changing till the end of the specific date.
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Aug 19, 2010
When my countdown has timed pu, the sound no longer works. I've tried everything and every setting, anyone had this problem or got any ideas?
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Mar 23, 2010
Wondering if there is an app or widget that does a countdown to a certain day? With the ability to enter your own date that you want to countdown to.
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Dec 31, 2009
Anyone know if there is a "New Year's Eve Countdown" app? Would be extra special if it had the ball drop animation along with the counter
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Jul 30, 2010
I would like to install a ticker/tracker on my phone but I can't find any apps out there. It should track things like: track my progress in losing weight or reducing my debts, increasing my savings, etc.
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Aug 31, 2010
I am creating an App in which i need to add a timer for postpone the one event for 1 hr and start same event after 1 hr , so i want to know how i can implement the same. Are there any Timer api's and handling of them in android.
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Aug 15, 2009
I came to know about Timer in android. I read http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2007/11/stitch-in-time.html that Timer is not available at Runtime.
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Jul 22, 2010
I have a service that I need to execute every two minutes. Would it be more efficient to use an alarm or a timer?
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Dec 9, 2009
What is the proper way to set a timer in android in order to kick off a task (a function that I create which does not change the UI)? Or there is a better way in android (android's handler)?
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Dec 3, 2009
How to get whether timer is running or not? That means How to get whether timer is scheduled or not?.
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Nov 3, 2010
I'm looking for the best way to setup a timer for a game. For example I want the timer to tick down, but I want to be able to add to the timer when certain levels are reached etc. I'm just looking for the most efficient way to accomplish this. it only needs to be every second or so. If anyone has any insight on this.
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Feb 22, 2010
I am new to Android development and have been working on a simple demo app that needs to update a TextView a few times from an array after a button is clicked. I have read and adapted the code found here to achieve this: http://developer.android.com /resources /articles /timed-ui-updates.html
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Sep 27, 2010
I would like to know how to intercept the event that the apk has been updated in order to launch again my Timer. Indeed, I have a Timer wich is "scheduled AtFixedRate", but when my App is updated through the market, the timer is killed ; and if the user doesn't launch the App, the timer is not started (so my app becomes useless). How could I do to avoid it ? Is there an event to catch the "App updated" ? I searched, tried, but nothing.
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Sep 27, 2010
I have to give a 20x20 presentation tomorrow and I'm looking for a timer app to help out. 20x20 means that each slide auto-advances after 20 seconds. I'd like to have a timer on my phone that would give me a quick glance of how much time I have left for each slide. Start it at 20 seconds, have it count down and when it hits zero, start over at 20. Seeing as it's just a timer app, I really would rather not pay $2 for StopWatch & Timer, which is the only one I've found that offers a looping timer. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Jan 7, 2010
In order to get XML data from a server repeatedly, I'm attempting to use AsyncTask and Timer as per Mark Murphy's suggestion. I get the following error:01-07 16:11:26.705: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(729): Caused by: java.lang.Runtime Exception: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()I'm using SDK 1.5 with Eclipse on Windows.I've looked in documentation, on StackOverflow and in the Android Developers group, but I'm not clear what's causing the error or how to fix it.I can get the data once - i.e. without Async and Timer - and parse it via SAX without problems.s: I'm quite new to Android.
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Apr 22, 2010
When writing :
CODE:.......
Are we actually starting a new thread that handles ticks ? or what is really happening behind ?
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May 31, 2014
Is there a timer within Android that can be set for a given interval and when the interval has elapsed to send a signal back to a listener routine inthe main programme? Something like the way a button reacts when clicked.
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May 4, 2009
I am using a Timer in my android application, but i can't get it to work. When I start my application the Timer simply does not start. The application continues but does not update.The long "toStart" finds the number of seconds left of the current minute, and thereafter the period is set to 60 seconds. The TimerTask simply calls a method.
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Dec 28, 2009
Is there an app that lets you set a countdown timer on another app which causes it to force close. For example, I use my Eris as my MP3 player and would like to listen to it while I go to sleep, however I don't wanna let it play all night while I'm sleeping maybe just an hour or so.*Edit* Nevermind I found an app that does the job. Its called Music Sleep. It lets you set a timer that will close your music app in case anyone else was interested. It only costs 99 cents
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Nov 11, 2009
I am presently working on GPS. I have to start GPS periodically. I mean I want GPS to start after a particular interval, get Location value and then stop taking location updates. For this, I'm calling requestLocationUpdates( , , ) method in a timer. Then in onLocationChanged(), I stop taking location by using removeUpdates(). Then after particular interval, it again starts taking values, then when location changes, it stops, and so on.
Here is my code:
CODE:.............
Now the problem is:It starts fine for the first time,when location changes it stops then starts again,but the timer stops running after that.I dont get any error or exception.I dont know where is the problem.As far as I am concirned,the problem is in timer......
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Mar 4, 2010
I have an activity that uses a Timer (java.util.Timer) to control the display. I set it off to repeat its run() method every second or so. When it runs, it updates some View elements.
As Timer runs in its own thread, I assumed this would be reliable. But I notice that sometimes there is a stutter, or delay, in the views updating. It's like they occasionally get stacked up, and all happen together. Studying the output from logcat, I notice that this happens when the device is doing something else - some system functions, or sometimes a garbage collection.
How can I avoid this? I'm not aware I can run the main activity in a thread of its own, can I? If the timer has its own thread, why is it affected?
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