I have a main background thread that's doing work that's needed to be done relatively quickly...i.e. update the screen.
But there are times where I might have to do some additional work (that's not that much of a priority - i was thinking of making that an AsyncTask. The notify/wait was a generic question - whether those can be used and/or recommended for use under the android platform. On Thursday, February 7, 2013 10:27:38 AM UTC-5, G. Blake Meike wrote: > > You should say something about what you are trying to accomplish. > Starting an AsyncTask from a background thread is already a bit odd... > waiting for it to complete (which you imply with your comments about .wait > and .notify) is downright nuts. > > Did you know that onPostExecute will be run on the thread on which the > AsyncTask is created, provided that thread is a Looper? If you just init > your background thread as a Looper, you might be able to use the AsyncTask > normally... > > -blake > > G. Blake Meike > Marakana > > Programming Android 2ed is now in stores: > http://bit.ly/programmingandroid > > > On Thursday, February 7, 2013 2:04:38 AM UTC-8, dashman wrote: >> >> I'm in a worker thread and would like to start an AsynTask execution. >> >> Preferably w/o starting a new thread. Help! >> >> >> Also, is java threads as in (new Thread()) frowned upon in android. >> >> I think i read somewhere .notify() .wait() etc. should not be used. >> >> -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
