Nathan wrote: > Is there a limit on the number of simultaneous http requests of the > form: > > HttpResponse response = client.execute(request); > > I'm interested in any official limit as well as practical ones. > > (In a previous life, you had to dig deep to discover that WinMo only > allowed three WebRequests to be open at a time.) > > Let's say I have a list of 20 files to download on a background > thread. > > Should I: > Download them one at a time, blocking the thread (but not the UI > thread) to wait for each one? > Start 20 threads each downloading one of the files? > > I expect the answer may be somewhere in between, where I create C > threads and work on the queue of N files, where C is a number like 3 > or 4. > > I suspect some of you here have already done some experimentation and > know the magic number. In addition, I suspect there may be more > efficient ways of doing what I'm doing than creating a new > DefaultHttpClient for each request.
IMHO, just use AsyncTask for the HTTP requests. It already has a thread pool, tuned for what the core Android team feels is a reasonable number of threads for this sort of purpose. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Consulting/App Development: http://commonsware.com/consulting
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