timer

inline fun timer(name: String? = null, daemon: Boolean = false, initialDelay: Long = 0.toLong(), period: Long, crossinline action: TimerTask.() -> Unit): Timer(source)

Creates a timer that executes the specified action periodically, starting after the specified initialDelay (expressed in milliseconds) and with the interval of period milliseconds between the end of the previous task and the start of the next one.

Since Kotlin

1.0

Parameters

name

the name to use for the thread which is running the timer.

daemon

if true, the thread is started as a daemon thread (the VM will exit when only daemon threads are running).

inline fun timer(name: String? = null, daemon: Boolean = false, startAt: Date, period: Long, crossinline action: TimerTask.() -> Unit): Timer(source)

Creates a timer that executes the specified action periodically, starting at the specified startAt date and with the interval of period milliseconds between the end of the previous task and the start of the next one.