I need to make my timers synchronized

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My question is for an Androip App. I am planning to use several timers and they will change the textviews' values once per second. But when I use CountDownTimer, textviews become unsynchronized. How can I create an exact timer that won't delay and I can see every textview change at the same time?

change every textview in the same timer. For example, create an object with a list for your textview and a timer. With the timer, proceed the list. — Tokazio, Mar 31 '16 at 13:53
But my major problem is timer doesn't tick every exact 1 second. It ticks late or earlier sometimes and after an hour it has a difference like 9-10 seconds. I mean is there a different method without delays ? — Orhan Özdemir, Mar 31 '16 at 14:02
Timers depending on how you use your cpu. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/351565/system-currenttimemillis-vs-system-nanotime — Tokazio, Mar 31 '16 at 14:05
I tried to use nanoTime() but i need to setText() after 1 second. When I tried to execute my app naturally It tried to setText() for every nanosecond and just freezed. I couldn't find the way to make it per second instead of per nanosecond. — Orhan Özdemir, Mar 31 '16 at 14:14
Not like this I mean I used It like while(finish>start) a.setText(currenttime); — Orhan Özdemir, Mar 31 '16 at 14:19
Aded code tags, fixed some grammar (that I'd understand), added code tags. — Antti Haapala -- Слава Україні, Mar 31 '16 at 14:26

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 31 '16 at 14:10

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Create a timer in a thread like this:

for(;;){
long startTime = System.nanoTime();    
while(System.nanoTime() - startTime<1000000000){//1000000000ns = 1s
    //Wait or sleep(0)
}
System.out.println("Action!");//Call your action here
}

answered Mar 31 '16 at 14:10

Tokazio

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I need to make my timers synchronized

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