I need to increment a number every second using threads in android

Question

Here I am doing it using Handler but it only increments a number once. I want it to increment the number until I stop it using handler.removeCallbacksAndMessages(null);.

Can anyone please guide me how can I achieve this. I am just new to android.

   Handler handler;
handler = new Handler();
 handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        count++;

                    }
                }, 1000);

Answer 1

Define a Thread a start it.

   Thread counterThread=new Thread(()->{
            try{
                while(true){
                counter++;
                Thread.sleep(1000);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception e){

            }
        });
    counterThread.start();

And when you want to stop this thread call counterThread.interrupt();