cbraun75 wrote: > Just have a Problem with stopping a thread by finishing a programm > through > - just go back to mainmenu or go back with the back button. > > It is replying always on in the Log modul the data. > > My programm catches the Location data from the GPS modul and should > send it to a webservice. But when the home button or the back button > is pressed the threads are always going on ... and telling the thread > that there is an interrupt for him doesn't make anything. > > Has anybody an idea why it's always running?
You have implemented onDestroy(). However, merely pressing the home or back will not necessarily destroy your activity, any more than pressing the Start menu button in Windows closes all running programs. If you want to make sure your activity closes down, give the user some means (e.g., option menu choice) to call finish() on the activity. That should cause your activity to go through onDestroy(). If, instead, you want to just disable your polling while your activity is hidden and restart it when it is visible, you should start your polling in onResume() and stop your polling in onPause(). It may be that your background thread keeps running, but that it doesn't actually check and log the position when the activity is not visible. You can read more about the activity lifecycle, and the onResume()/onPause() pair, at: http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/app/Activity.html#ActivityLifecycle You could also peek at the Threads/Handler demo from my book's sample code. > public void run() { > while(!Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted()) { > Message m = new Message(); > m.what = MyData.GUIUPDATEIDENTIFIER; > MyData.this.myViewUpdateHandler.sendMessage(m); > > try { > Thread.sleep(10000); > } > catch (InterruptedException e) { > Thread.currentThread().interrupt(); > } > } > } Why not just break out of your infinite loop on an InterruptedException? That will cause you to exit run() and will therefore cause this thread to terminate. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ -- Available Now! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
