重置SystemClock.currentThreadTimeMillis（）

Question

I have a button that appears at the end of my app when the game is complete that is meant to reset the app. I have tested it and it works besides the timer. I have does not reset to the "startTime". I have a button that is used to reset the game such as:

if(resetButton.getText().equals("Restart"))
{
    reset_flag = true;
    Intent i = getBaseContext().getPackageManager()
                .getLaunchIntentForPackage(getBaseContext().getPackageName());
    i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
    startActivity(i);
}

I have a runnable for the timer as:

long gamerestart = SystemClock.currentThreadTimeMillis();
if(reset_flag)
{
    gamerestart = 0;
    startTime = 60000;
    flag = false;
}
timeInMilliseconds = startTime - gamerestart;

The reset_flag did help as I noticed the time at the top of the game reset to the original time but at the next time-tick it updated to whatever the currentThreadTimeMillis is. I did try doing SystemClock.currentThreadTimeMillis() = 0; but that did not work ( I was not surprised it didn't either..)

I did not see a function within SystemClock that would doing any resetting. I thought this would be a simple task but maybe it is not, could anyone give me some help? Thanks.

Answer 1

That time is how long the thread has been alive, consider using a separate variable for timing. You can always initialize it to SystemClock.currentThreadTimeMillis() and deduct SystemClock.currentThreadTimeMillis() whenever you want to display the value