Are there any good documents giving an overview of all these different methods. Doesn't have to specifically be android, of course.
On Jan 7, 10:50 am, skink <psk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 7, 10:26 am, Sean Hodges <seanhodge...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > The method really depends on your requirements: > > > * If the amount of work isn't too great, and you just want the > > activity to be drawn before the processing starts, then postDelayed() > > is a sensible approach. > > > * If you have a lot of processing to do, and the execution needs to be > > linear (e.g. (a) must finish before (b) which must finish before (c)) > > , then an ASyncTask or Runnable would allow that to happen without > > interfering with the activity event loop. > > > * If you have a lot of processing to do, but want to split it up into > > lots of asynchronous background tasks (and execution order is less of > > an issue), then using a message queue would be more manageable. > > > If you're unsure which one you will need, then a postDelayed() is a > > simple approach to start off with. You could extract intensive work > > into background threads later on. > > imho message queue is better solution than postDelayed() since with > the latter you have to pass delayms: 200 could be ok, but maybe 100 > would be better, or maybe 50 or 20? it all depends on how complex your > view is and how fast/busy your device is > > pskink
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