android - Runnable stopped when activity is paused -

i have clock done updating textview text using runnable. when i'm in activity textview updated properly, when leave , come activity, code in run() method not executed anymore.

do have call run() again in onresume of activity? why? mticker runnable stopped?

myactivity.java

public void oncreate(bundle savedinstancestate) {      super.oncreate(savedinstancestate);      mhandler = new handler();      mticker = new runnable() {         public void run() {             if(mclockstopped) return;             long = system.currenttimemillis();             mcalendar.settimeinmillis(now);               mclock.settext(dateformat.format("kk:mm", mcalendar));             mclock.invalidate();             long uptime = systemclock.uptimemillis();             long next = uptime + (60000 - % 60000);             mhandler.postattime(mticker, next);         }     };     mticker.run();      /* more stuff */  }  @override     public void onresume()     {         super.onresume();         mclockstopped = false;      }      @override     public void onpause()     {         mclockstopped = true;                 super.onpause();     } 

maybe not simple, setting mclockstopped true make runnable's run() exit.

you should call

mclockstopped = false;  mticker.run(); 

in onresume