Timers not accurate (online game)

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

@broekmancompany

After long testing I found out that the real timer interval are very different

This is really a well-known (very old) problem that has been discussed extensively in all App Inventor forums since 2014.

So search the forums … there are a number of solutions …

Here is one of the first approaches (early 2014):

Also see here (to compare the accuracy of the clock component with a real-time timer extension):

Upcoming extension: countdown / up timer - date / time format - in real time

I’m going to create a new extension that counts down or up seconds (or ms), but also displays the duration / time in the date format (eg: HH:mm:ss). The special thing is that the extension does not use a clock and / or does not work with the java countdownTimer, but catch and displays the time in real time. In this way, the countdown / count up does not lose a single millisecond regardless of how long the period is. The extension (in which I was supported by @Red_Panda with regard to some spe…