Change color with delay

Question

I want to change the background color of a textview when I press a button. It should do this: first be white for 10ms, and then just the regular color. Is there some kind of delay function or do I need to write my own function for this using a loop or some kind? Any tip is greatly appreciated :)

At this moment I just use

button.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#ffa500"));

Answer 1

every view have post and postDelayed methods to respectively post a runnable to the UI thread or post delayed it.

    button.postDelayed(new Runnable() {

    @Override
    public void run() {
    // change color in here
    }
}, 10);

edit: if you're going to be calling this very often, you can do it even better with something like this:

int currentColor;
private Runnable changeColorRunnable = new Runnable() {

    @Override
    public void run() {
        switch(currentColor){
        case Color.RED: currentColor = Color.BLACK; break;
        case Color.BLACK: currentColor = Color.RED; break;
        }
        button.setBackgroundColor(currentColor);

    }
};

and then:

    button.postDelayed(changeColorRunnable, 10);

this will avoid unnecessary object creation and garbage collection