Kind of off-topic, but why are you creating a new Thread with each post, vs simply posting the Runnable?
On Oct 5, 5:47 pm, Jeremy Wadsack <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a class that uses a Handler for a timed, asynchronous activity. > Something like this: > > public class SampleClass { > private static final long DELAY = 30000; > private boolean isRunning = false; > private Handler handler = new Handler(); > > public start() { > if (!isRunning) { > isRunning = true; > handler.post(new Thread(task)); > } > } > > public stop() { > isRunning = false; > } > > private Runnable task = new Runnable() { > public void run() { > if (!isRunning) { > return; > } > > // Do some tasks > handler.postDelayed(new Thread(this), DELAY); > } > } > > } > > I am trying to write a unit test (without having to implement an > activity that instantiates the class) but I can't seem to get the > items that are posted to the MessageQueue to ever be fired. Inheriting > from junit.framework.TestCase doesn't work, but then there wouldn't be > a MessageQueue for the handler, I'd expect (although, there's no > error, but the Runnable never gets called). I tried inheriting the > test class from AndroidTestCase and ApplicationTestCase<Application> > but neither of those works, even though the former is supposed to > provide a Context and the latter "all the life cycle of an > application." > > Anyone have any pointers? > > -- > Jeremy Wadsack -- 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
