Thanks a lot for your feedback Mark. Do you have a rule of thumb you apply to decide on AsyncTasks vs Loaders? For example, if you expect something to take less than x mins, use AsyncTask, otherwise use a Loader?
On Sunday, October 21, 2012 5:36:10 PM UTC-4, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:13 PM, ncdroid <jbl...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Can someone please answer definitively for me the following: > > > > Are ContentProviders required to use Loaders w/Sqlite? > > No. If you really want to use loaders with SQLite directly, I have a > SQLiteCursorLoader that works without a ContentProvider: > > https://github.com/commonsguy/cwac-loaderex > > > If ContentProviders are *not* required to use Loaders w/Sqlite, is there > any > > recommended example which shows how to use the two together? > > What is (are?) the "two" in this sentence? > > > If Sqlite has a recommended way to achieve functional parity to Loaders > with > > another method, what is that method? > > :: shrug :: > > I use ordinary AsyncTasks myself, way more often than Loaders. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 4.2 Available! > -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
