I would use an AsyncTask for that, but Handler works too. Both are
explained with examples here:
http://www.vogella.de/articles/AndroidPerformance/article.html#concurrency
On 10 Sep, 12:23, Kristoffer <kris.isak.v...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have been searching for answer how to update a textview from another
> thread, i have found several answer that point to using "Handler" but
> i dont know how i should implement that in my code, maybe you could
> point it out for me.
>
> Iam checking if the user is logged in or not to Twitter,
> here is my code.
>
> SettingsActivity.java
>
> public void updateLoginStatus() {
> Thread f = new Thread() {
> public void run() {
>
> final TextView loginStatus = (TextView)
> findViewById(R.id.loginstatus);
> loginStatus.setText("Logged into Twitter : " +
> TwitterUtils.isAuthenticated(prefs));
>
> }
>
> };
> f.start();
> }
>
> and here is the code in TwitterUtils.java
>
> public static boolean isAuthenticated(SharedPreferences prefs) {
>
> String token = prefs.getString(OAuth.OAUTH_TOKEN, "");
> String secret = prefs.getString(OAuth.OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET, "");
>
> AccessToken a = new AccessToken(token,secret);
> Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance();
> twitter.setOAuthConsumer(Constants.CONSUMER_KEY,
> Constants.CONSUMER_SECRET);
> twitter.setOAuthAccessToken(a);
>
> try {
> twitter.getAccountSettings();
> return true;
> } catch (TwitterException e) {
> return false;
> }
> }
>
> any good idees?
> Thanks
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