我建议使用定时器，它允许你在特定的时间间隔内安排一个方法被调用。这将不会阻塞你的UI，并保持你的应用程序的共鸣，而方法正在执行。

另一个选项是wait();方法，这将阻塞当前线程指定的时间长度。如果你在UI线程上这样做，这将导致你的UI停止响应。

5秒后在UI线程中执行一些东西:

new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).postDelayed(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        //Do something here
    }
}, 5000);

android中合适的解决方案:

private static long SLEEP_TIME = 2 // for 2 second
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MyLauncher launcher = new MyLauncher();
            launcher.start();
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private class MyLauncher extends Thread {
        @Override
        /**
         * Sleep for 2 seconds as you can also change SLEEP_TIME 2 to any. 
         */
        public void run() {
            try {
                // Sleeping
                Thread.sleep(SLEEP_TIME * 1000);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                Log.e(TAG, e.getMessage());
            }
            //do something you want to do
           //And your code will be executed after 2 second
        }
    }

这里有另一个棘手的方法:当可运行的更改UI元素时，它不会抛出异常。

public class SimpleDelayAnimation extends Animation implements Animation.AnimationListener {

    Runnable callBack;

    public SimpleDelayAnimation(Runnable runnable, int delayTimeMilli) {
        setDuration(delayTimeMilli);
        callBack = runnable;
        setAnimationListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
        callBack.run();
    }

    @Override
    public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {

    }
}

你可以像这样调用动画:

view.startAnimation(new SimpleDelayAnimation(delayRunnable, 500));

动画可以附加到任何视图。

使用CountDownTimer非常简单。 详情https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/CountDownTimer.html

import android.os.CountDownTimer;

// calls onTick every second, finishes after 3 seconds
new CountDownTimer(3000, 1000) { 

   public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
      Log.d("log", millisUntilFinished / 1000);
   }

   public void onFinish() {
      // called after count down is finished
   } 
}.start();

每个人似乎都忘记在发布新的可运行文件或消息之前清理处理程序。否则，它们可能会累积并导致不良行为。

handler.removeMessages(int what);
// Remove any pending posts of messages with code 'what' that are in the message queue.

handler.removeCallbacks(Runnable r)
// Remove any pending posts of Runnable r that are in the message queue.