Christine wrote: > On Aug 15, 2:55 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> By "posts a task", do you mean executes an AsyncTask, or something else? > > I postDelayed a Runnable in a Handler.
Ick! > I > assumed that a Service would run at a lower priority than the Activity > thread. The Service *is* the Activity thread, unless you fork your own thread. That's the "ick!" from above -- all the Handler/Runnable stuff does is delay the processing, not put it on a background thread. > Putting the Runnable in a thread with a priority one lower > than the Service's thread seems to solve the problem - need more > testing, but I haven't seen the popup yet. Great! > I will check out AsyncTask > to see if that's a better solution than creating a thread. If you do not need a long-lived thread, AsyncTask is nice for "fire and forget" background work. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android App Developer Training: http://commonsware.com/training.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
