Android Question Timer handling

[gezueb]

I have an app that uses a timer to blink a label on a panel asking for user interaction.
On restart or resume of the app the timer is enabled again.
However, very often but not always, the tick event will fire before the panel and label has had a chance to be initialized which causes an exception.
Is there a way to make sure the timer has no pending events on restart?
Thanks for help! Georg

 

[DonManfred]

Stop all running timers on Activity_pause
Resume all needed timers in activity_resume

 

[Cableguy]

In the timer event check if label.isinitialized is true, if it is not, do nothing. This will ensure that the tick event code will only be run if the label is initialized

 

[udg]

You may want to have a look at my lib's dgTextEffects.
It sports a flashing label that doesn't need a timer (you start/stop the flashing at will).

udg