CODEWITHSUNDEEP
android
boo-urns
boo-urns

Reputation: 10376

How to start a background thread in Android

This might be a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway.

How do you start a background thread off the UI thread without using AsyncTask or Handler or Service or any other Android-provided structure? I want to create a new Thread to do some Bitmap processing, and given the bugs that were reported against AsyncTask, I'd like to avoid those classes. I know they are the Google-recommended way to background a task, but let's pretend I can't use them...just for fun. :)

If it's not possible, I'd like to know why. If it is, how do I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 361

Answers (3)

zbr
zbr

Reputation: 7037

You can start a new Thread from the main UI thread for Bitmap processing no problem. It will do what you need it to do and won't block the main UI thread in any way. However you can't directly manipulate your UI thread from the newly created thread.

Look for more information here: http://developer.android.com/guide/components/processes-and-threads.html#Threads

Upvotes: 1

Hoan Nguyen
Hoan Nguyen

Reputation: 18151

new Thread(new Runnable()
{   
    @Override
    public void run()
    {
       // Your code here                        
    }
}).start();

Upvotes: 0

IssacZH.
IssacZH.

Reputation: 1477

You could try with Thread

Thread initBkgdThread = new Thread(new Runnable(){
     public void run(){


         //Things that you wanted to do in background here.

      }
});
initBkgdThread.start();

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions