[android-beginners] Re: Communicate between two threads

[Jeffrey Blattman]

i've used the handler approach, and it gets really, really ugly. i have this huge switch statement covering all the possible messages. it's so ugly it made me think i must be doing something wrong. On 9/21/09 10:26 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: could on also use a dedicated broadcast receiver? for example, the activity registers a BR that has a handle to the activity itself. the client then sendBroadcasts() to the BR? Yes, but that would be a lot more overhead and a lot more public. Intents are broadcast to the device as a whole, not just within your application. Ordinarily, I would have suggested AsyncTask, but I believe the threading model the OP needs for the ServerSocket will not work well with the AsyncTask framework. --