Android Change picture every 10 seconds

Question

Im trying to write a very basic android app that displays around 5 pictures one after each other on the screen. I want it to display a different picture after about 10 seconds. Can anyone advise me on how I would go around this. Below i have outlined what i would be looking for.

Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3
Picture 4
Picture 5

display full screen Picture 1
wait 10 seconds
Remove Picture 1 and Display Picture 2
Wait 10 seconds
Remove Picture 2 and Display Picture 3
Wait 10 seconds
Remove Picture 3 and Display Picture 4
Wait 10 seconds
Remove Picture 4 and Display Picture 5
Wait 10 seconds

Start again

Answer 1

Have you considered using Frame Animations?

You can specify an xml in your anim folder that contains a frame-by-frame animation, specifing each image duration, and other settings, check it out

UPDATE

You can also build a frame animation programmatically of course:

    AnimationDrawable animation = new AnimationDrawable();
    animation.addFrame(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.image1), 100);
    animation.addFrame(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.image2), 500);
    animation.addFrame(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.image3), 300);
    animation.setOneShot(false);

    ImageView imageAnim =  (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.img);
    imageAnim.setBackgroundDrawable(animation);

    // start the animation!
    animation.start()

Answer 2

you can use the CountDownTimer : follow these steps :

1) declare an array which will contain the identifients of your pictures

2 ) declare the CountDownTimer like this :

int i=0;
new CountDownTimer(10000,1000) {

                @Override
                public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {}

                @Override
                public void onFinish() {
                    imgView.setImageDrawable(sdk.getContext().getResources().getDrawable(array[i]));
                    i++;
                    if(i== array.length-1) i=0;
                    start();
                }
            }.start();