Well, no. If the work you're doing takes that long, you should do it in another thread. Or, if you absolutely must to do it in your main thread (you never did say why you think you need to do that), you should break it up in to smaller chunks and post messages to your main thread to tell it to process each of those chunks.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:11 AM, GiladH <gila...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yep.. it's that simple. > > Pls note however that whatever content you're setting will not be > actually visible > until onCreate() is completed. If your onCreate() processing is > lengthy, as ours, > you're better off placing your startup image in a dedicated activity. > > > > > > > > On May 5, 12:34 am, Marco Nelissen <marc...@android.com> wrote: > > Why not set your content view to be an ImageView with the desired image, > and > > then once you're ready to show the real UI, call setContentView() again > with > > the real UI? > > > > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:22 PM, GiladH <gila...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Tnx but that is not what I'm looking for. > > > I basically want to display an image (packed within form/view/ > > > whatever) WITHOUT blocking the UI thread, > > > > > Can this be done? > > > > > On May 4, 8:16 pm, Jeff Sharkey <jshar...@android.com> wrote: > > > > Take a peek at AsyncTask, it can help you easily (and correctly) > > > > transition between UI and background threads: > > > > > >http://d.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.html > > > > > > j > > > > > > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:02 AM,GiladH<gila...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hey, > > > > > > > I want to display a fancy 'loading' image at my app's startup time. > > > > > > > The problem: my startup code is mostly GUI related, hence needs to > run > > > > > on UI thread. > > > > > > > Is there a way to do both - that is run UI-related code on UI > thread > > > > > while an image > > > > > is displayed to the user? > > > > > > >GiladH > > > > > > -- > > > > Jeff Sharkey > > > > jshar...@google.com > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
