On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Stephen Lebed <srle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm calling an AsyncTask in my UI thread from a button click.  The
> AsyncTask is collecting data from the hardware sensors, and will store
> the info into global variables that I'll perform work from.

"global variables" = ick.

> I'd like
> to know how to either wait for the AsyncTask to finish without locking
> up the UI, or how to trigger an event when AsyncTask is finished.

Override onPostExecute() in the AsyncTask and do your work there. In
fact, why not get rid of the "global variables", hold onto the data in
the AsyncTask, and just apply them in onPostExecute()?

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