How to Start a Background Thread in Android
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What is the thread in Android?
A thread is a thread of execution in a program. The Java Virtual Machine allows an application to have multiple threads of execution running concurrently. Every thread has a priority. Threads with higher priority are executed in preference to threads with lower priority.How does the threading work in Android?
When an application is launched in Android, it creates the first thread of execution, known as the “main” thread. The main thread is responsible for dispatching events to the appropriate user interface widgets as well as communicating with components from the Android UI toolkit.How many threads are there in Android?
four
Android has four basic types of threads. You'll see other documentation talk about even more, but we're going to focus on Thread , Handler , AsyncTask , and something called HandlerThread .What is thread in Android with example?
A Thread is a concurrent unit of execution. It has its own call stack for methods being invoked, their arguments and local variables. Each virtual machine instance has at least one main Thread running when it is started; typically, there are several others for housekeeping.How can a thread in Android be stopped?
There are 2 following ways preferred to stop a thread.
Create a volatile boolean variable and change its value to false and check inside the thread. volatile isRunning = false; public void run() { if(!isRunning) {return;} }
Or you can use the interrupt() method which can be receive inside a thread.
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