supposing you have a service with an certain number of methods and the service is to run in its own thread ... how would you do it ?
On Apr 26, 10:41 pm, "Dan U." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you notice the api docs say that creating a Handler associates it > with the current thread. Probably you create your Handler instance > while setting up the UI? That should mean the UI thread is what it > uses when you use your Handler. That would explain why you have a > frozen UI. Quite often a Handler is used for making changes to the UI, > so having it run on the UI thread is the most common use case in my > opinion. I think for your example, you don't even need to use a > Handler. I'd just utilize a Thread directly. > > On Apr 26, 1:24 pm, WildLuka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hello there, > > > I have been trying to provide an answer to one of my own questions, > > you can see it > > here:http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > > > so I have created a service an inner class that extends Handler. > > here is the class: > > > private class ServiceHandler extends Handler { > > > Session login(final String username, final String password, > > final > > ActivityPendingResult result) { > > post(new Runnable() { > > public void run() { > > long id = > > Thread.currentThread().getId(); > > // login code here. > > // creation of Session object > > } > > }); > > return mSession; > > } > > > public void handleMessage(Message msg) { > > int what = msg.what; > > switch(msg.what) { > > case 0: > > ActivityPendingResult result = > > (ActivityPendingResult) msg.obj; > > result.sendResult(0, null, null); > > break; > > default: break; > > } > > } > > } > > > the hadler.login() method gets called by the login method declared in > > the Service class. > > The Service.login method is called by an Activity method. What puzzles > > me is that i was expecting handler.post() to spawn a new thread, and > > turn the whole login process into an asynchronous one, instead the > > thread id is 1 and as a result the interface on the Activity is > > frozen. > > what's going on here ? > > > take care > > luka --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
