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Reputation: 10405

Android: Any practices for asyncronous network activities which updates UI

I'm developing an application which transmit information to network devices using a TCP connection. My main problem is I need to update UI every time a feedback or alert received from a devices. Since their feedback and response is unpredictable, I can not wait till they respond and user can move between different application Activities. So when an alert or feedback receives, I should check which activity is on screen and update UI and pass messages between activities to let them what they should do and this is a complex task for many situation which may happen.

So I want to ask are there any know practices for this situation?
e.g. Is it good to run network communications as a service and pass intent to receivers on requires UI updates? Or is it good to run a handler for network communications...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 37

Answers (2)

Wasim K. Memon
Wasim K. Memon

Reputation: 6067

I suggest you check EventBus. it will allow you to send events like local broadcast receiver. And from that you can listen specific event and display result.

Upvotes: 1

Amir Horev
Amir Horev

Reputation: 287

I would suggest to use receivers as you mentioned, and to detect in which activity the user is watching I would use the onResume and onPause methods in each activity to store the current one on the sqlite database.

Upvotes: 0

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