Thanks for all replies, it really helps. It helps me to dig deep into handler... Till now i thought, handler will create in a seperate thread.. Thanks Lance for providng the link and of course Mark murphy, always there to help us(Android Developers)..
Nithin On Mar 17, 6:57 pm, Lance Nanek <lna...@gmail.com> wrote: > When created by the no argument constructor, aHandlerruns on thethreadit is > created on. You often see aHandlercreated on the mainthreadintentionally, > like in Mark's example above, so that a secondthreadcan send messages to it > that will be acted on in the mainthread. This is needed because the Android > UI Toolkit isn'tthread > safe; it needs to be called from the mainthread. TheHandlerin that > case is just used for UI updates, not for the work that should be done > in the otherthread. > > You can use aHandlerfor doing work in anotherthread, however. > There's an example of that in the documentation > here:http://developer.android.com/intl/de/reference/android/os/Looper.html > > There are also some alternatives to that example explored > here:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2187464/how-do-i-ensure-another-th... > > On Mar 17, 6:03 am, Nithin <nithin.war...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > For showing loading screen, in the activity's mainthread, I draw > > loading screen and created ahandlerfor doing other extensive > > operations like database creations, parsing etc. > > > But unfortunate;y, for me, all is executing in mainthreadonly. Seems > > likeHandleris not working as a seperateThread. Any idea please.. > > > Nithin -- 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
