Why not just call Thread.isInterrupted() instead of using the
volatile?

On Dec 29, 9:24 am, theSmith <[email protected]> wrote:
> I found this article to be very insightful because I too am just
> learning about managing multiple 
> threads.http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5144546.html
>
> I ended up using a shared volatile variable that is check when I'm
> doing this that take alot of time in the background thread, if it's
> false the thread will exit accordingly.  Also in my app's onStop()
> method I make sure to check to see if the thread is running and stop
> it if it is.
>
> -theSmith
>
> On Dec 18, 5:44 pm, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Calling interrupt() only works if your thread is interruptable and if
> > your thread handles interruptions appropriately.
>
> > Your thread only is interrupted if the thread is doing I/O or is in a
> > wait-state (having called wait() on Object).
>
> > If you want to have background threads that do one-shot jobs and then
> > wait, use AsyncTask or the java.util.concurrent's ExecutorService .
>
> > And, you'd better read up on concurrent programming a little :-) It
> > can be tricky.
>
> > On Dec 16, 11:26 pm, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Try storing the newly spawned thread as a field or collection in the
> > > appropriate class.  Then when you need to kill the thread, retrieve it
> > > and call Thread.interrupt().
>
> > > Matt
>
> > > On Dec 9, 6:15 pm, Richard Zhao <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > My problem is:
> > > > Activity A called Activity B, and in Activity B, it start a background
> > > > thread to do some client-server work. But it maybe takes too much
> > > > time. So i add a cancel button to call the stop() method to stop the
> > > > thread, and call finish() to finish the Activity B and go back to
> > > > Activity A. Although it is back to Activity A, the thread isn't stop
> > > > immediately.
>
> > > > Can i just call the finish() to go back to Activity A, and leave the
> > > > thread to exit by itself?
> > > > If it is not the right way, which is?
>
> > > > Thanks for any help.- Hide quoted text -
>
> > > - Show quoted text -

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