Android hide a view after a few seconds

Spawn a separate thread that sleeps for 3 seconds then call runOnUiThread to hide the view.

Thread thread = new Thread() {

   @Override

   public void run() {

       try {

           Thread.sleep(3000);

       } catch (InterruptedException e) {

       }

       runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {

           @Override

           public void run() {

               // Do some stuff

           }

       });

   }

};