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Threads and UI in Android

From	Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Threads and UI in Android
Date	2011-04-03 19:16 +0100
Organization	Dirk Bruere at Neopax
Message-ID	<8vrrsdF6urU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)

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Part of the problem I have been having with adding data to a listview 
stems from the threads I have running. Specifically, I have a thread 
that constantly checks for messages coming over the Wifi/LAN. When it 
finds one it loads the datagram, then calls a static method from a class 
BlinkAPI which calls other BlinkAPI methods which loads the data into 
arrays.

So far so good - no problems.
However, if the Android ListView in the UI is to be updated with this 
data there is a problem. I cannot go in and do stuff to the ListView 
from BlinkAPI or I get a message about "called from wrong thread".

Given that loading up Listviews, adapters etc should be done from the 
same UI thread, how best to put a "break" between my LAN thread and the 
UI thread?

-- 
Dirk

http://www.neopax.com/technomage/ - My new book - Magick and Technology

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Threads and UI in Android Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 19:16 +0100
  Re: Threads and UI in Android Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 20:27 +0100
    Re: Threads and UI in Android Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-04-04 10:16 +1200
      Re: Threads and UI in Android markspace <-@.> - 2011-04-03 17:51 -0700
        Re: Threads and UI in Android "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-03 21:50 -0400
        Re: Threads and UI in Android Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-04 06:23 +0100
          Re: Threads and UI in Android Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-04-04 18:48 +1200
            Re: Threads and UI in Android markspace <-@.> - 2011-04-04 17:31 -0700
          Re: Threads and UI in Android Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-04 19:18 +0100
            Re: Threads and UI in Android markspace <-@.> - 2011-04-04 14:54 -0700
              Re: Threads and UI in Android Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-04 23:41 +0100
                Re: Threads and UI in Android markspace <-@.> - 2011-04-04 16:29 -0700
                Re: Threads and UI in Android Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 00:32 +0100
                Re: Threads and UI in Android markspace <-@.> - 2011-04-04 17:27 -0700
                Re: Threads and UI in Android Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 01:30 +0100
                Re: Threads and UI in Android Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-04-04 18:53 -0700
                Re: Threads and UI in Android Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 03:19 +0100
                Re: Threads and UI in Android Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-04-04 23:04 -0700
                Re: Threads and UI in Android Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 08:04 +0100
    Re: Threads and UI in Android markspace <-@.> - 2011-04-03 17:29 -0700

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