How to disable view ( Button ) for specific time period (for example 5 seconds ) every time user click on button in android studio in kotlin?

Question

When user click on the button (button is home activity) he will intent to game activity in 30 sec to 1 min user may win or lose and come back to home activity and then button must get disabled for 3 min (with time countdown showing) after 3 min button gets enable again and process repeat.

Please help me, It is the last part of my college project.

Wish you a Good Day!

Answer 1

As far I understood your question. Correct me if I am wrong.

The app launches Home activity (button enabled)-> button click of Home Activity -> open game Activity -> when you come back from game activity -> home activity button should be disabled for 3 min (button disabled).

so you want the home activity button should be disabled when are you coming back from the Game activity right? If yes

mHomeActiviyButton.enabled = false
val intent = Intent(this, GameActivity::class.java)
startActivityForResult(intent) // as startActivity for result is deprecated use new  one but logic remains same


In-game activity :
val intent = Intent()
intent.putExtra("DisableFor3Minutes",3) // you can customize time
setResult(intent)
enter code here

override onActivityResult function 
In home activity :     
val time = intent.getString("DisableFor3Minutes")

Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).postDelayed({
mHomeActButton.enabled = true          
}, time)

Answer 2

Well a simple solution to that would be to use a countDownTimer.

val timer = object: CountDownTimer(20000, 1000) {
    override fun onTick(millisUntilFinished: Long) {...}

    override fun onFinish() {...}
}
timer.start()

You would start the timer when the user comes from the game activity. Then you could save the remaining time whenever the onPause is called and start over the countdown timer when the onResume is called. When the remaining time reaches 0 then you will enable the button again. Lastly, you would need to save the remaining time in a sharedpreference so that when the app is closed that you would start from the remaining time.

Answer 3

No need to add any handler or time you haveto disable button on Button onClicks() and enable button on onResume() like :

 mHomeActiviyButton.enabled = false
    val intent = Intent(this, GameActivity::class.java)
    startActivityForResult(intent) 
    
     override fun onResume() {
            mHomeActiviyButton.enabled = enable
        }