I strongly recommend using IntentService, which takes care of the threading for you. Unless you are good at multithreading (I will claim that 90% of developers are not) then it is a good idea to stay away from Thread and use some higher-level facilities like IntentService, AsyncTask, etc.
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason LeBlanc wrote: > > Yes, the Connection extends Thread. > > Then be sure not to do anything time-consuming in the Connection > constructor. Put the time-consuming stuff in run(). In this case, that > includes opening your socket connection, because while it might not be > time-consuming normally, it will be if it cannot resolve DNS, etc. > > > If I start a Thread in an Activity, does that Thread need to complete > > execution before I can transition to the next Activity? > > No. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
