Try storing the newly spawned thread as a field or collection in the appropriate class. Then when you need to kill the thread, retrieve it and call Thread.interrupt().
Matt On Dec 9, 6:15 pm, Richard Zhao <zwher...@gmail.com> wrote: > My problem is: > Activity A called Activity B, and in Activity B, it start a background > thread to do some client-server work. But it maybe takes too much > time. So i add a cancel button to call the stop() method to stop the > thread, and call finish() to finish the Activity B and go back to > Activity A. Although it is back to Activity A, the thread isn't stop > immediately. > > Can i just call the finish() to go back to Activity A, and leave the > thread to exit by itself? > If it is not the right way, which is? > > Thanks for any help. -- 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
