runOnUiThread?

Why have I been using Handler.post this whole time?



On Monday, September 10, 2012 3:41:53 AM UTC-5, Harri Smått wrote:
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> On Sep 10, 2012 12:04 AM, "Edvinas Kilbauskas" 
> <edvinask...@gmail.com<javascript:>> 
> wrote:
> > I heard that android doesn't support plain old Java Threads.
>
> That's not true. Android supports basic Java Threads and there's no reason 
> for not to use them when appropriate. But the thing is, you can not alter 
> UI components outside of UI Thread. In your case it would be updating the 
> textual contents of TextView. See method named runOnUiThread , it gives 
> easy access for executing UI code from Threads.
>
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