[android-developers] comparison of Thread vs Asynctask in android?

2011-05-19 Thread Hitendrasinh Gohil
hi, I have just found one google doc for ANR.i am using thread class to retrieve data from server.and displaying it to app. so i just want to that whether i should use Thread or should forget the Thread because android is providing Asynctask. can anyone elaborate this,pls? -- You received

Re: [android-developers] comparison of Thread vs Asynctask in android?

2011-05-19 Thread Miguel Morales
The only difference is that AsyncTask uses a thread pool to do its work. If you use a thread, you will have a slight overhead of creating and starting the thread. However, they both work relatively the same. On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Hitendrasinh Gohil hitendra.virtuei...@gmail.com

Re: [android-developers] comparison of Thread vs Asynctask in android?

2011-05-19 Thread Saurav
In my experience, (I have used both), you need to create a Hander object to change something from the procedure that is running inside your Thread. Whereas, if you use the AsycTask, there will be call backs to do UI updations... I also agree with Miguel Morales. Regards, Saurav Mukherjee.

Re: [android-developers] comparison of Thread vs Asynctask in android?

2011-05-19 Thread Hitendrasinh Gohil
hi, i have read this from google doc,ANR(Application not responding) happens when , I)main thread(event thread/ui thread) doesnt respond to input events in 5 sec ii)broadcast receiver doesnt finish in 10 seconds. in my application flow is like classA threadcallback to classA with datafrom

Re: [android-developers] comparison of Thread vs Asynctask in android?

2011-05-19 Thread Miguel Morales
Have you read: http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/painless-threading.html ? On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Hitendrasinh Gohil hitendra.virtuei...@gmail.com wrote: hi, i have read this from google doc,ANR(Application not responding) happens when , I)main thread(event