How do I fix my background scheduler?

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I programmed my app to switch its background images every 5 seconds automatically and it was auto-refreshing fine every 5 seconds before without interruption until I added a search onClickListener. Now:
- it doesn't work until the search button is clicked.
- it switches faster the more you click it.
So I want to change it back to its previous settings, I don't want the search
onclick listener to affect it in any way. How do I solve this, please?

Here is the code:

HomeActivity.java:
public class HomeActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    // User current time
    TextView time_field;
    MediaPlayer player;
    ImageView Search;
    EditText textfield;
    ConstraintLayout constraintLayout;
    // For scheduling background image change
    public static int count=0;
    int[] drawable =new int[]{R.drawable.dubai,R.drawable.central_bank_of_nigeria,R.drawable.eiffel_tower,R.drawable.hong_kong,R.drawable.statue_of_liberty};
    Timer _t;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_home);

        time_field = findViewById(R.id.textView9);
        Search = findViewById(R.id.imageView4);
        textfield = findViewById(R.id.textfield);

        BottomNavigationView bottomNavigationView = findViewById(R.id.bottomNavigationView);
        final NavHostFragment navHostFragment = (NavHostFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.fragment);
        assert navHostFragment != null;
        final NavController navController = navHostFragment.getNavController();
        NavigationUI.setupWithNavController(bottomNavigationView, navController);

        Search.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {

                player = MediaPlayer.create(HomeActivity.this, R.raw.click);
                player.start();

                getWeatherData(textfield.getText().toString().trim());
                FirstFragment firstFragment = (FirstFragment) navHostFragment.getChildFragmentManager().getFragments().get(0);
                firstFragment.getWeatherData(textfield.getText().toString().trim());

// For scheduling background image change                            
constraintLayout = findViewById(R.id.layout);
                            constraintLayout.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.dubai);
                            _t = new Timer();
                            _t.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {
                                @Override
                                public void run() {
                                    // run on ui thread
                                    runOnUiThread(() -> {
                                        if (count < drawable.length) {

                                            constraintLayout.setBackgroundResource(drawable[count]);
                                            count = (count + 1) % drawable.length;
                                        }
                                    });
                                }
                            }, 5000, 5000);
                        }

            private void getWeatherData(String name) {

                ApiInterface apiInterface = ApiClient.getClient().create(ApiInterface.class);

                Call<Example> call = apiInterface.getWeatherData(name);

                call.enqueue(new Callback<Example>() {
                    @Override
                    public void onResponse(@NotNull Call<Example> call, @NotNull Response<Example> response) {

                        assert response.body() != null;
                        time_field.setText("Last Updated:" + " " + response.body().getDt());

                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onFailure(@NotNull Call<Example> call, @NotNull Throwable t) {
                        t.printStackTrace();
                    }

                });
            }

        });
    }
}

What I have tried:

I tried calling

constraintLayout.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.dubai);
                            _t = new Timer();
                            _t.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {
                                @Override
                                public void run() {
                                    // run on ui thread
                                    runOnUiThread(() -> {
                                        if (count < drawable.length) {

                                            constraintLayout.setBackgroundResource(drawable[count]);
                                            count = (count + 1) % drawable.length;
                                        }
                                    });
                                }
                            }, 5000, 5000);

Before the onclick method, but it gave many errors.