Android Programming Tutorials

Sitting in the Background

a KillJob that causes the Thread to fall out of its queue-monitoring

loop.

Further Reading..........................................................................................

Coverage of the Android concept of "the UI thread" and tools like the

Handler for managing communication between threads can be found in the

"Dealing with Threads" chapter of The Busy Coder's Guide to Android

Development. You will also learn about AsyncTask in that chapter, which is

another important means of coordinating background and UI thread

operations.

If you are interested in Java threading in general, particularly the use of the

java.util.concurrent set of thread-management classes, the book Java

Concurrency in Practice is a popular source of information.

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