android - Periodic Message in Thread -

i have activity (myactivity) , thread (mythread) , both handler allow me send message between ui thread , mycustomthread. call periodically (10sec) alive message of mythread thread myactivity. how can achieve ?

myactivity :

public void onresume() {     super.onresume();     this.thread                 = new mythread(activityhandler);     this.threadhandler  = this.thread.gethandler();      threadmessage           = this.threadhandler.obtainmessage();     threadmessage.what  = auth;     this.threadhandler.sendmessage(threadmessage); } 

mythread :

@override

public void run() {          looper.prepare();          this.threadhandler = inithandler();          this.message        = this.activityhandler.obtainmessage();         this.message.what   = connected;         activityhandler.sendmessage(this.message);          looper.loop();  }  private handler inithandler() {     return new handler() {          public void handlemessage(message msg)         {             switch(msg.what)             {                 case auth :                  {                     auth();                     break;                 }                  case alive :                 {                     sendalive();                     break;                 }             }         }     }; } 

thanks help

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