That's right, use the flags and catch the interrupted exception..
don't use stop().
This is a huge antipattern..
kris
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Ankita Kashyap
<ankita.kashyap....@gmail.com> wrote:
> stop(),destroy() etc. methods were deprecated by JDK versions, so must have
> not got support now. To stop thread, you should try to use flags, AFAIK.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Matt Clark <mrclark32...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am creating an app that sends various HTTP requests in seperate threads,
>> while doing so brings up a loading screen. If the network request is taking
>> longer then the user expects, I want them to be able to press the back
>> button to force quit the thread, and dismiss the loading screen.
>> I have my thread set up as:
>>
>> dataThread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
>> public void run() {
>> //...
>> //Networking Data and Handlers
>> //...
>> }
>> });
>> dataThread.start();
>>
>> and where I want to force quit at onBackPressed() I have tried:
>>
>> dataThread.stop();
>> dataThread.destroy();
>> dataThread.interrupt();
>>
>> And none of them work, Android does not support stop(), or destroy(), and
>> interrupt() does nothing to stop the thread. I do not care about exceptions
>> as everything will be caught, I just want it to allow the user to resume
>> doing what they want, if it hangs on requests, or even retry the request..
>>
>> Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
>> ~Matt
>>
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