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Matt W
Matt W

Reputation: 6108

Pros and cons of using a Thread or TimerTask for an Android game

Many Android game examples utilize a Thread to run a game engine on a particular interval. However, I've seen some other examples that use a TimerTask to run the game engine interval as well. I'm curious as to what other developers think the pros and cons of each approach are.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 638

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Falmarri
Falmarri

Reputation: 48559

Timertask is a wrapper for a thread that provides a callback to the main thread allows you to schedule the running of a runnable sometime in the future. They have fairly different use cases. If you need to run code now, then use a thread, if you need to schedule something to run in the future, use timertask.

Edit: My mistake, was thinking of a different class. Fixed

Upvotes: 2

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