Ben Williamson wrote: > Mark Murphy wrote: >> Ben Williamson wrote: >> >>> Hey all, wondering if anyone knew the proper way to suspend your >>> background threads when a user opens a new window. I see that suspend is >>> deprecated and it warns it may cause deadlocks. >>> >> >> If by "new window" you mean "new activity", then: >> >> 1. Have your thread-spawning activity implement onPause() and onResume(). >> >> 2. Start your threads in onResume() (not onCreate()). >> >> 3. Do something to tell your threads to shut down of their own accord in >> onPause(). >> >> 4. Have the threads honor whatever you did in #3. >> >> For example, I tend to isolate long-running background work into a >> Service, and use a LinkedBlockingQueue to control what work gets done. >> When the threads need to stop due to onPause(), I just post an object on >> the queue that indicates "yo! thread! stop!", and the thread drops out >> of the pull-the-work-off-the-queue loop at that time. >> >> > I think a better way to have phrased my question is.... > > "public final void suspend() > This method is deprecated. May cause deadlocks." > > is in the javadoc for the Thread class.... is there an alternative to > this method so I do not have to kill and completly start over each > time I need to pause my activity. I ran across someone else using sleep and a boolean flag to set the thread suspended, will this method work with the Activity structure that is in Android. Can I set a flag and tell my thread to sleep while in onPause?
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