> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> It looks like you are trying to manually instantiate a Handler, or
>> possibly an Activity, in the background thread. If so, that is not the
>> proper way to use a Handler. This is one of the reasons I dislike
>> Handler, preferring runOnUiThread() (and hopefully the new AsyncTask).
>>
> Yes, it seems that the proper way is to instantiate the Handler when being
> on the UI thread.
>From what I can tell, this is done traditionally as an initializer in an
activity:
public class Foo extends Activity {
Handler myHandler=new Handler() {
// impl methods here
};
// rest of activity here
}
Though, as you note, specialty classes like AsyncTask may use Handler
somewhat differently.
> Thanks for the heads-up. I've never seen AsyncTask before and meanwhile it
> seems that it's an Android 1.5 feature.
Yes, that's new to 1.5.
> Mark, as always, you were very helpful. Thank you!
Happy to help!
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