[android-beginners] Re: problem launching multiple threads

2009-01-14 Thread Dan
Why are you trying to start a thread for the UI? This happens automatically when your Activity is created so there is no need to try and start another thread for the UI. You should only have to create a background thread for your socket processing. On Jan 14, 2:19 am, "[^MiSaTo^]" wrote: > Hi ag

[android-beginners] Re: problem launching multiple threads

2009-01-14 Thread James Yum
Hi Misato, Like Dan said, you most likely do not want to create a separate thread for the UI. Any UI updates should occur in the main thread (i.e. the thread where the Views were created). Please check this How To for handling expensive operations in the UI thread. http://code.google.com/android

[android-beginners] Re: problem launching multiple threads

2009-01-15 Thread [^MiSaTo^]
Thanks, I'll have a look at it. I'm new at android developing and i think i'm a little bit lost. On Jan 14, 8:17 pm, James Yum wrote: > Hi Misato, > > Like Dan said, you most likely do not want to create a separate thread > for the UI. Any UI updates should occur in the main thread (i.e. the >

[android-beginners] Re: problem launching multiple threads

2009-01-15 Thread [^MiSaTo^]
So, sorry to bother you again. What i understand, is that i create the UI as the main Activity Class and inside it i lauch the other thread. In pseudo-code this will be like : onCreate{ initialize the UI; launch socket thread(); create Handler(); } am i right? On Jan 14, 8:17 pm, Jam

[android-beginners] Re: problem launching multiple threads

2009-01-15 Thread Dan
Misato, I have included some code that I use and works great. I'm fairly new to Android myself so there obviously could be other ways of doing it as well. Inside of my activity class I create the Handler object: // Create a new handler object that will handle the messages // sen

[android-beginners] Re: problem launching multiple threads

2009-01-16 Thread [^MiSaTo^]
Thank you Dan. I understand your post and appreciate your help. I'll try it! :) Sorry to bother, but i've never done concurrency. On 15 ene, 17:51, Dan wrote: > Misato, > > I have included some code that I use and works great. I'm fairly new > to Android myself so there obviously could be oth