How to make a countdown timer in Android?

new CountDownTimer(30000, 1000) {

    public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
        mTextField.setText("seconds remaining: " + millisUntilFinished / 1000);
       //here you can have your logic to set text to edittext
    }

    public void onFinish() {
        mTextField.setText("done!");
    }

}.start();

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if you use the below code (as mentioned in accepted answer),

new CountDownTimer(30000, 1000) {

    public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
        mTextField.setText("seconds remaining: " + millisUntilFinished / 1000);
       //here you can have your logic to set text to edittext
    }

    public void onFinish() {
        mTextField.setText("done!");
    }

}.start();

It will result in memory leak of the instance of the activity where you use this code, if you don't carefully clean up the references.

use the following code

//Declare timer
CountDownTimer cTimer = null;

//start timer function
void startTimer() {
    cTimer = new CountDownTimer(30000, 1000) {
        public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
        }
        public void onFinish() {
        }
    };
    cTimer.start();
}


//cancel timer
void cancelTimer() {
    if(cTimer!=null)
        cTimer.cancel();
}

You need to call cTtimer.cancel() whenever the onDestroy()/onDestroyView() in the owning Activity/Fragment is called.