It seems like the Loader is now a replacement for AsyncTask, but does it also replace the use of a Runnable/Thread scenario? The AsyncTask is more difficult to set up, so I understand why a Loader makes sense there ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5603504/android-3-0-what-are-the-advantages-of-using-loadermanager-instances-exactly). In my scenarios, I have data being loaded from a web service but there's a progress dialog and action only needs to be taken after the process is completed. So for this I've always created a runnable, started a new thread from that, and have an "on UI" runnable that's called after the processing is completed. Should I instead be looking at using Loaders for this moving forward?
-- Chris Stewart On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Chris Stewart <cstewart...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thanks for the reply Dianne. I'm not completely sure what you mean by > > custom loader, are you referring to what was introduced in 3.2? If so, > is > > it available in the support library for pre-3.2? > > The Loader framework is in the Android support package / compatibility > library / thingy. :-) > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
