My guess is that you're calling Thread.run() from the UI thread. This will execute the thread in the UI thread. You need to call Thread.start () for it to execute in its own thread.
Let me know if this isn't the issue. Cheers, Justin Android Team @ Google On Dec 4, 1:33 pm, enervatron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using a helper thread to post data back to a web site. What I > notice is that I'm > getting an Application Not Responding back in the main thread even > though it's > not doing anything other than interrupting the helper thread to wake > up. If the > amount of data in the post is small (~ couple hundred bytes), I don't > have a > problem, but when it gets moderately large (~ 10kb) it reliably stalls > the main > UI thread and gets (appropriately) an ANR. Even weirder is that if I > time from > when I start the post to when it receives the entire reply (ie, using > Date().getTime()) > in the helper thread, it shows that it's only taking about .5 seconds > to complete, > even though it takes ~10 seconds to become responsive again. > > This *only* seems to be the case writing the post data. If I do a post > of a small > amount of data with a large amount of data coming back from a web > site, the > app remains responsive and unlike the above problem, the timing > numbers in > the thread agree with how long it actually took. > > FWIW, I'm using HttpURLConnection to create and read/write the data, > and > I'm aware that I need to use Handler to affect the UI from the helper > thread. > Also: this is on the G1 hardware. I've also fiddled with priorities, > etc, to > no avail, so I'm pretty stumped as to why the helper thread is > interacting > with the UI thread. > > Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
