Tag Archive: activity

Updating an Android Activity from a Background Thread

cogitolearning June 24, 2013 Android, Tutorials activity, android, application, java, thread

In the last post, I talked about the difference between a service and a background thread in Android. In this post I want to talk about updating an activity from a background thread that runs in the application context. As you…
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Android Services vs Background Threads

cogitolearning June 11, 2013 Android activity, android, java, service, thread

A question that is asked by many new Android developers is when to use a service and when to use a background thread for some task that threatens to block the UI thread. This question is somewhat misleading because it…
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