Alternative to Thread.sleep method in Android

Question

I have this button that when clicked saves the details entered in my textfields to Google App Engine, right after the call to that onClickListener, i have an intent that starts a new activity, which displays the details I just entered. Here is the code for this:

submitButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            if(v.getId() == R.id.userDetailsCaptureButton) {
                new EndpointsTask().execute(getApplicationContext());
            }

            startActivity(userProfileDisplayIntent);
        }
    });

Now i want to be able to wait for a couple of seconds before making a call to startActivity after new EnpointsTask().execute(getApplicationContext) has been called. I read that using Thread.sleep causes the UI to freeze and as such isn't best suited for this. What other options are there?

Answer 1

The solution is to use a handler with a runnable and use of the method 'postDelayed'. Example:

new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
    public void run () {
        // Do delayed stuff!
    }
}, 5000L); //5 seconds delay