If you're sure that all users of the data are within the same process (the same app), then using Java synchronized is the best way to go. However, you will need to be very careful to understand your semaphore dependencies, or deadlock will occur. "Not responding" is almost as bad as "Data corrupted" due to bad inter-thread communication.
The use of Bundles and/or ContentProviders are to enable inter-process data passing, and to avoid some of the danger of errant deadlock situations. On Jan 26, 10:37 am, neuron <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I've got an app that spawns of a seperate thread. Parses JSON data into a > structure. And passes it back to the main thread through a handler. Each > part of data is sent through the handler individually. That worked fairly > well with my previous XML parser, as XML parses data while it downloads. But > JSON doesn't (atleast I haven't found a way to get that working). In either > way the JSON data is much smaller and much faster to parse. > > I've recently added a feature that requires me to load several sources of > json in parallel, parse in the background, and pass all the data back again > using a Handler. This is a bit slower than I was hoping. > > Would it be faster (and possible) for me to do this: > BackgroundThread extends Thread { > onCreate (Parent) { > this.parent = parent; > } > onData { > parent.addParsedData(x); > } > > } > > Parent extends ListActivity { > ListAdapter list; > onCreate { > setListAdapter(list); > new BackgroundThread(this); > } > public synchronized addParsedData(data) { > list.add(data) > } > > } > > I'm thinking this won't be thread safe, as ListAdapter is in the parent > thread. Am I right? > Should I instead inside the listadapter (which puts data in an array) have > synchronized access to it's items? -- 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
