How to stop a timer in android

Question

How to stop the currently executing task of the timer.? If i use timer.cancel() it will cancel the timer but perform the currently executing task..So is there a way around so that i can cancel the currently executing task??

Answer 1

Use:

   timer.cancel();
   timer.purge() 

purge() Removes all canceled tasks from the task queue and timer.cancel() cancels the Timer and all scheduled tasks..

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Answer 2

Follow the cancel call with a

timer.purge();