Have you considered using IntentService? On Sep 17, 7:29 am, Spidey <spide...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry for double posting, but I haven't confirmed if the first message > was received. I'm sending this one through google groups website, hope > this reach the group. > > ========================= > Ok, so in a project I'm in, we are implementing a service to handle > connection changes and downloads. The service handles a queue of > AsyncTasks, each representing a "download task". This way, we can > cancel/pause tasks when connection drops, and also restore them when > connection is reestablished. Since the threads AsyncTasks are run are > not deterministic, how many ATs should I execute() at the same time? > > I've read that I shouldn't reuse tasks. How can I achieve this pause->resume > functionality then? Should I tell the thread to sleep? Should > > I make a no-op while if connection is down? I was trusting the > cancel(true) method, which I've read is not reliable either. > > My main DownloadTask is a subclass of AsyncTask that returns a new > AsyncTask to be called when the connection is restored. Is that a good > solution?
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