Achanta wrote: > Can anyone suggest a work around for this issue. > I have a background thread which starts in the onCreate methos and > which I close in the onDestroy method. But because of this bug in the > sdk 2.1 my thread never stops. But when the user closes the > app[onDestroy hasn't been called] and opens my application again, I > try to create the thread in the onCreate. But after this is done at > some point the onDestroy from the earlier activity is called which > sends a messahe to my thread's handler to stop the thread. So the app > runs now but the background thread doesnot run.
You may be able to redesign your application to not require a permanent background thread. For example, use discrete AsyncTasks that do some work and end. > Another problem that I face with the same issue is since the handle > passes the message to stop the thread even while it is supposed to > run, my events trigger actions where i have to write to database from > the background thread. Now since that is null it shows the force close > message. I have no idea what this means. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in US: 14-18 June 2010: http://bignerdranch.com -- 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