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Barışcan Kayaoğlu
Barışcan Kayaoğlu

Reputation: 1304

Android difference between Thread and AsyncTask

I've been trying to connect to a server to retrieve some data. First thing came to my mind was to create a thread to connect asynchronously.

new Thread(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        // retrieve data
    }
}).run();

But the weird thing is that the thread I created worked synchronous with UI thread and I got a network exception so I ended up using AsyncTask. Do you guys know what could cause a thread to work non asynchronously with the UI thread? My class extends to a fragment.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 174

Answers (1)

makovkastar
makovkastar

Reputation: 5020

Your must start your thread with start() and not run() in order to start the new thread:

new Thread(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        // retrieve data
    }
}).start();

Upvotes: 5

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