Setting a timeout and finishing an ActivityforResult activity

Issue

I'd like to know if there's some way to set a timeout for an Intent started via startActivityForResult, so when the time is passed some actions can be performed with the activity of the mentioned intent (in my case finishing it).

There doesn't seem to be any direct way to set a timeout directly to the Intent, but this doesn't look too much to worry about, as I guess I could create a CountDownTimer that in onFinish() would call the code to finish the intent.

Problem is I don't see a way to finish that ActivityForResult.

Is there any way to do this?

Solution

Well, I finally got to solve the problem, indeed it wasn't very difficult.

For my particular case of INTENT_PICK the following code is valid to stop the activity after 2 minutes:

final int RQS_PICKCONTACT = 1;

[...]
Intent intentPickContact = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, uriContact);

                        startActivityForResult(intentPickContact, RQS_PICKCONTACT);

                        mcd = new CountDownTimer(120000, 10000) {

                            public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {

                            }

                            public void onFinish() {
                                try
                                {
                                    finishActivity(RQS_PICKCONTACT);

                                }
                                catch (Exception ex)
                                {

                                }
                            }

                        }.start();

Answered By - user2638180