Updating the documentation to clearify the fact that it works like this, would be a very good thing. I haven't run into this issue myself, but the more clearification there is in documentation, the better. Makes all devs happy.
On Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:42:49 PM UTC+2, Nathan wrote: > > Cause it doesn't. > > I have a service running an Asynctask to do some work. > > I bind to it from an activity and call a cancel method. The service, > in turn, calls AsyncTask.cancel(true); > > AyncTask.cancel returns true. Nonetheless, the thread is still running > happily and still doing the things in doInBackGround, sending > notifications along the way. > > There is no sign that it attempted to kill the thread. > > I am not using NDK calls or anything that I think should stop if from > taking down the thread. > > What am I doing wrong? Or is this a known issue? > > Nathan > > public final boolean cancel (boolean mayInterruptIfRunning) > > Since: API Level 3 > Attempts to cancel execution of this task. This attempt will fail if > the task has already completed, already been cancelled, or could not > be cancelled for some other reason. If successful, and this task has > not started when cancel is called, this task should never run. If the > task has already started, then the mayInterruptIfRunning parameter > determines whether the thread executing this task should be > interrupted in an attempt to stop the task. > Parameters > mayInterruptIfRunning true if the thread executing this task should > be > interrupted; otherwise, in-progress tasks are allowed to complete. > Returns > false if the task could not be cancelled, typically because it has > already completed normally; true otherwise > > -- > 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 -- 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
