Blinking Text in android view

Question

Hello all, How do I display an blinking text in android screen . Thank you all.

Answer 1

Create a view animation for it. You can do an alpha fade from 100% to 0% in 0 seconds and back again on a cycle. That way, Android handles it inteligently and you don't have to mess arround with threading and waste CPU.

More on animations here:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/animation/package-summary.html

Tutorial:
http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=343