TimerTask vs Thread.sleep vs Handler postDelayed – most accurate to call function every N milliseconds?

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There are some disadvantages of using Timer

  • It creates only single thread to execute the tasks and if a task
    takes too long to run, other tasks suffer.
  • It does not handle
    exceptions thrown by tasks and thread just terminates, which affects
    other scheduled tasks and they are never run

ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor deals properly with all these issues and it does not make sense to use Timer.. There are two methods which could be of use in your case.. scheduleAtFixedRate(…) and scheduleWithFixedDelay(..)

class MyTask implements Runnable {

  @Override
  public void run() {
    System.out.println("Hello world");
  } 
}

ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor exec = new ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor(1);
long period = 100; // the period between successive executions
exec.scheduleAtFixedRate(new MyTask(), 0, period, TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS);
long delay = 100; //the delay between the termination of one execution and the commencement of the next
exec.scheduleWithFixedDelay(new MyTask(), 0, delay, TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS);

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