Ah, thanks. Either way, it means that the number of items in the list accessed by getBroadcastItem is always equal to N. The problem remains: How can getBroadcastItem(int) return null?
On Mar 13, 4:53 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Streets Of Boston > <flyingdutc...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > I thought that beginBroadcast() would lock the callback-list for > > modification and finishBroadcast() would unlock it again. This way, N > > should always be the number of items in this HashMap you were > > mentioning. Am i correct in this. > > No, it only locks internally in beginBroadcast() to create the list. If you > may have multiple threads calling beginBroadcast(), they need to do their > own synchronization, holding your own lock from before calling > beginBroadcast() to after finishBroadcast(). > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---