On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:36 PM, cindy <[email protected]> wrote:

> When the user clicks some button, I can directly change the UI of
> my application, such as set the view or change layout without any problem.
>

You can do that because you're on the main thread.


> Why we need to call runOnUIThread() function?
>

Because if you try to modify UI components from any non-UI threads, bad
things happen (you crash, basically).

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transit tracking app for Android-powered devices

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