Android :: Delay Effect To Work?

I am new to android development, also new to java. I have many years of experience with OO PHP, so it's not hard for me to quickly learn Java and Android, but I still don't know many things like Thread class. I just started developing a simple app. What I want to do is that when a button is clicked, then the TextView is update in this way: the background is changed to black (by default it's set to white) Then it should wait a half a second and then set the background back to white and update the text inside the TextView

Here is my code, it's inside my Activity class:
public synchronized void onClick(View v) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub switch (v.getId()) { case R.id.btnPlay: showNewDraw(); break; } protected void showNewDraw() { textResult.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK); textResult.setText("Before sleep"); try { Thread.sleep(500); } catch (Exception e) { textResult.setText("Something wrong"); } textResult.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE); textResult.setText("After sleep"); }

The way it works now is that it seems to actually take 1/2 second from the time the button is pressed and text is updated, but the background is not reset to black and back to white - it always stays white. Either it is being set to black and instantly reset to white or it's just never set to black. What should I do in order for the "delay" effect to work?