On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Indicator Veritatis <mej1...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> If it "wasn't very useful", then why is it still appearing on a stack > trace in 2.1? Android itself is using it, so it must be useful -- > unless you still have a lot of useless crap that needs to be removed > even from 2.1;) > It's part of the framework implementation. There are lots of things in the internal framework impl that you'll see in stack traces. > And what did you hope to achieve by hedging, saying "may have been"? > It WAS included. I found it in the copy of the docs at > http://www.androidjavadoc.com/1.0_r1_src/android/app/ActivityThread.html > It is (was) in the android.app package. So if it is no longer > supported, it should have been marked in newer SDK's as deprecated. > Why wasn't it? > Oh... what the heck is that? That isn't official documentation. It looks like someone is generating Java docs from the raw source code, but not taking into account the @hide annotations to hide things from the SDK docs that aren't available to apps. I wouldn't trust anything I see in that doc. > In any case, I take it the modern way of managing the execution of the > Activity's main thread is to use Handler and Looper, NOT use > ActivityThread, leaving all other 'managing' of the thread to the > system. > ActivityThread has *never* been an application API. It doesn't have anything intended for direct use by apps. You also don't manage the main app thread; the framework does that, with this and various other classes. You can just use the normal Handler facility to enqueue messages/runnables on the main thread. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
