#Is it possible pause my program by thread for 5 seconds to call an endpoint

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last quiver
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And after 5 seconds, rest of the code will run.
I did below code but somehow it is not working:

final String[] quoteData = new String[1];
new java.util.Timer().schedule(
                new java.util.TimerTask() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        // your code here
                        quoteData[0] = getQuote();
                        Log.e("DAI", quoteData[0]);
                    }
                },
                5000
        );

Any thoughts?
And one more thing, here also see I just need String variable but for the Thread it forces me to make the String variable final and array too 😭
Thanks!

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glad valley
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Use ScheduledExecutorService

leaden crow
glad valley
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You could achieve what you want

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You said "not working"

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If you want a paused threading thingy going, that's the service

leaden crow
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I did not say that, OP did. And the same thing with a ScheduledExecutorService would be equally not working

glad valley
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oh

leaden crow
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TimerTask works, you know

glad valley
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I thought you were OP

glad valley
leaden crow
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Since the beginning actually. ExecutorServices became handy when scheduling things become a more-than-one-time occurrence

glad valley
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Perhaps they could simply make a Future and return the .get() after the 5 seconds

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wouldn't that work?

leaden crow
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Fundamentally we need to know why it doesn't work. Which comes with how do they know that it doesn't work, what happens instead

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I suspect they're doing android code and trying to wait on worker thread

mighty merlin
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What's the deal with the 5 seconds? What's the intended goal? Waiting around for anything sounds like a terrible idea. I'm with @glad valley on this one, completableFuture