Android - Pausing for a few seconds

Question

I've been trying for a while to understand the Handlers thingy in order to pause a game for a few seconds.. no luck so far.

I was hoping if someone could walk me through or show me a complete method that can be adapted to my needs. which are: I have a pong like game, when the ball hit either sides of the screen, I want to pause for a few seconds to display the score, and then to resume the game.

Thanks!

Answer 1

if you are using it would be easier (and more efficient) to use a library like libgdx or andengine to do this but to do it in your current case i suggest a simple solution

on the update method use a bool to know if the ball is paused

 update()
 {
    if(!isPaused)
    {
       animateBall();
     }
     ...
 }

how to pause the ball

pauseBall()
{
   isPaused=true;
   Timer  t= new Timer();
   t.schedule(new TimerTask() {

     @Override
     public void run() {
            isPaused = false;
     }
   }, fewSeconds);
}