Your thread will never exit -- it will remain in Looper.loop(), because you never told it to quit out of the loop.
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Kakyoin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > Allow me to make another thread exclusively for this. I'm sure other > dev would want to know as well. > > According to the doc here: > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Looper.html#loop() > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > public static final void loop () > > Since: API Level 1 > Run the message queue in this thread. Be sure to call quit() to end > the loop. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > Question: > If I use Looper.prepare() and then Looper.loop() like this: > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > new Thread(){ > > @Override > public void run() { > Looper.prepare(); > > // my code here (create handler and stuff) > > Looper.loop(); > } > > }.start(); > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > What will happen if I don't call quit()? Actually I have no idea > 'when' and 'where' should I call quit(). > > Will this "loop" disappear by itself after my application exit? > > Thank you in advance! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
