hi All..
I Know how to check network status,connectivity and that type of things,Is there any option available to get Providers network status (means in terms of percentage or in terms of numbers???)because i need to show the network on my application,because I removed the Status bar from my application!!!How can i archive that?? Any solution?please Help thanks in advance Binil.. On Sep 19, 12:42 am, "Jeff Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> or better you could document that using your provider takes > >> significant time and that users should do the calls asynchronously. In > >> general it's good for applications to do content provider call > >> asynchronously, since even local database operations could become > >> pretty expensive. See the AsyncQueryHandler class, which handles much > >> of the thread for you when trying to do async queries, or you could > >> also use the wonderful UserTask class in the calling app to do the > >> query asynchronously. > > > I had a look at the AsyncQueryHandler class. Since it's an abstract > > class, > > would i have to extend it to make it work? I tried looking for > > examples on > > Google on how to use this class but couldn't find anything. I found > > what it does but didn't find anything on How to use it. > > Hopefully we'll get some samples up soon that use AsyncQueryHandler. > You do have to subclass it, since it calls the on*Complete() methods > on itself when the operations complete. All of the on*Complete() calls > happen on the UI thread, so it's safe to change the state of the UI. > > > Also, i still have a doubt after your response. > > In my initial approach, when i was not using a Content Provider, i was > > using the UserTask class to make mynetworkrequests (So that my UI > > didn't make a blocking call and the data was received in a separate > > thread). > > > In my new approach with a Content Provider, if the caller app is using > > the AsyncQueryHandler or the UserTask class, (which i think starts > > another thread) , does that mean the Content Provider doesn't need to > > use the UserTask class to make anetworkrequest or does it still need > > to make the request in a separate thread.? > > UserTask pulls a thread from a thread pool and AsyncQueryHandler has a > single thread per process that it queues requests on. In either case > it's safe to use that thread to do thenetworkaccess from within your > provider, as the main UI thread will continue to operate normally. If > your provider is hosted in a separate process from the calling > application the binder IPC system will block the calling thread in the > application process and pull a thread out of a thread pool to make the > request on your provider in your process. You can also safely block > the binder thread pool thread on anetworkoperation. > > -Jeff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
