Easy way to call method in new thread

I'm writing small app and now I discovered a problem. I need to call one(later maybe two) method (this method loads something and returns the result) without lagging in window of app.

I found classes like Executor or Callable, but I don't understand how to work with those ones.

Can you please post any solution, which helps me?

Thanks for all advices.

Edit: The method MUST return the result. This result depends on parametrs. Something like this:

public static HtmlPage getPage(String page) throws FailingHttpStatusCodeException, MalformedURLException, IOException {
        return webClient.getPage(page);
}

This method works about 8-10 seconds. After execute this method, thread can be stopped. But I need to call the methods every 2 minutes.

Edit: I edited code with this:

public static HtmlPage getPage(final String page) throws FailingHttpStatusCodeException, MalformedURLException, IOException {
    Thread thread = new Thread() {
        public void run() {
            try {
                loadedPage = webClient.getPage(page);
            } catch (FailingHttpStatusCodeException | IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    };
    thread.start();
    try {
        return loadedPage;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        return null;
    }

}

With this code I get error again (even if I put return null out of catch block).

Firstly, I would recommend looking at the Java Thread Documentation.

With a Thread, you can pass in an interface type called a Runnable. The documentation can be found here. A runnable is an object that has a run method. When you start a thread, it will call whatever code is in the run method of this runnable object. For example:

Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable() {
         @Override
         public void run() {
              // Insert some method call here.
         }
});

Now, what this means is when you call t.start(), it will run whatever code you need it to without lagging the main thread. This is called an Asynchronous method call, which means that it runs in parallel to any other thread you have open, like your main thread. :)