Because you don't always have an Activity easily accessible?
Besides:
>>
1. public final void runOnUiThread(Runnable action) {
2. if (Thread.currentThread() != mUiThread) {
3. mHandler.post(action);
4. } else {
5. action.run();
6. }
7. }
8.
<<
-- K
2012/9/11 bob <b...@coolfone.comze.com>
> runOnUiThread?
>
> Why have I been using Handler.post this whole time?
>
>
>
> On Monday, September 10, 2012 3:41:53 AM UTC-5, Harri Smått wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 10, 2012 12:04 AM, "Edvinas Kilbauskas" <edvinask...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I heard that android doesn't support plain old Java Threads.
>>
>> That's not true. Android supports basic Java Threads and there's no
>> reason for not to use them when appropriate. But the thing is, you can not
>> alter UI components outside of UI Thread. In your case it would be updating
>> the textual contents of TextView. See method named runOnUiThread , it gives
>> easy access for executing UI code from Threads.
>>
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