Mark Murphy wrote: > Ben Williamson wrote: > >> 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? >> > > Thread.sleep() is for a fixed period of time. This means the thread will > keep waking up if the activity is not yet resumed, and the thread will > stay asleep even after the activity is resumed (until the time period ends). > > I recommend you spend a bit of time getting spun up on Java concurrency > if you're going to be using background threads significantly. You might > consider _Java Concurrency in Practice_, or at least some of the > material on that book's wiki: > > http://artisans-serverintellect-com.si-eioswww6.com/default.asp?W1 > > Or, anything else you can find by Doug Lea, patron saint of Java threads. > > Thanks, I'll take a look at it.
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