How do you use a TimerTask to run a thread?

Question

I'm struggling to find documentation for the TimerTask function on Android. I need to run a thread at intervals using a TimerTask but have no idea how to go about this. Any advice or examples would be greatly appreciated.

Accepted Answer

You use a `Timer`, and that automatically creates a new Thread for you when you schedule a `TimerTask` using any of the `schedule`-methods.

Example:

```
Timer t = new Timer();
t.schedule(myTimerTask, 1000L);
```

This creates a Timer running `myTimerTask` in a Thread belonging to that Timer once every second.

How do you use a TimerTask to run a thread?

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