Timer的cancel问题

遇到有人问了个问题，关于Timer的，在这里记一下。

Timer在调用cancel之后不会立马去停止，它不会干扰正在执行的任务，计时器终止的话，当前的任务将是最后一次的调用，cancel可以多次调用，第一次的调用之后是没有作用的，源码中的解释如下：

 Terminates this timer, discarding any currently scheduled tasks.
     * Does not interfere with a currently executing task (if it exists).
     * Once a timer has been terminated, its execution thread terminates
     * gracefully, and no more tasks may be scheduled on it.
     *
     * Note that calling this method from within the run method of a
     * timer task that was invoked by this timer absolutely guarantees that
     * the ongoing task execution is the last task execution that will ever
     * be performed by this timer.
     *
     * This method may be called repeatedly; the second and subsequent
     * calls have no effect.

如果细心一点，我们会发现，Timer是java.util中的类，而在android中也提供了这种使用方式，那就是倒计时类CountDownTimer，更加符合android的环境，推荐使用。下面是它的使用实例：

new CountDownTimer(30000, 1000) {
 public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
 mTextField.setText("seconds remaining: " + millisUntilFinished / 1000);
 }
 public void onFinish() {
 mTextField.setText("done!");
 }
 }.start();

上面表示的从30s开始以没秒为单位倒计时，其中mTextField上显示剩余的时间，当时间为0时，调用onFinish方法，mTextField上done!建议多使用此种方法实现。