It's just a shortcut:

    public final void runOnUiThread(Runnable action) {
        if (Thread.currentThread() != mUiThread) {
            mHandler.post(action);
        } else {
            action.run();
        }
    }
to post a Runnable to the UI thread's handler.

-- Kostya

2011/5/27 Oceanblue <[email protected]>

> Thanks for the links. Your code clarifies things a lot.
>
> Thinking about Handler/HandlerThread made me wonder about something...
> Activity class provides a method called runOnUIThread(), which seems
> to me a very straight-forward way to execute commands emanating from
> other threads, on UI thread. Is there any idisadvantage of using this
> instead of Handler or HandlerThread?
>
>

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