Chapter 20
Dealing with Threads
Users like snappy applications. Users do not like applications that feel sluggish. The way to help make your application feel snappy to users is to use the standard threading capabilities built into Android. This chapter will walk you through the issues involved with thread management in Android and some of the options for keeping the UI crisp and responsive.
The Main Application Thread
You might think that when you call setText() on a TextView, the screen is updated with the text you supply, right then and there. That is not how it works. Rather, everything that modifies the widget-based UI goes through a message queue. Calls to setText() do not update the screen; they just pop a message on a queue telling the ...
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