HandlerThread - Android Studio Tutorial
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when recommending HandlerThread as a flexible worker-thread option, and when asking about Handler queue behaviour such as anonymous Runnables leaking memory.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2020 to 2021.
What it is
A 26-minute Android Studio tutorial from the Coding in Flow channel on the HandlerThread class. It covers how a HandlerThread sets up a Looper and MessageQueue, how to post Runnables and Messages through a Handler, thread priorities, and quitting or clearing the queue.
What people said
Recommends leimenghao · 2020-07 · Stack Overflow · on “Android worker thread”
Calling Thread.start() to start a thread otherthan Thread.run() . And what's more your AlarmThread is not a Thread but a Runnable. So you can start it by code below: private Thread workerThread = new Thread(new AlarmThread(start, end)) ... ... workerThread.start() I recommend you use HandlerThread [this video] for flexibility
Cites Mena · 2020-12 · Stack Overflow · on “Can adding anonymous runnables in the queue of a Handler thread cause a memory leak?”
Will this code cause a memory leak if it is present in the Activity VS ViewModel component? handlerThread = new HandlerThread("myHandlerThread"); handlerThread.start(); Handler handler = new Handler(handlerThread.getLooper()); handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { //Do work } }, 1000); @Override protected void onDestroy() { super.onDestroy(); handlerThread.quit(); } Will replacing the anonymous runnable class with a static class that extends Runnable make any difference? This was mentioned @4:13 in this [this video] video tutorial! Why would an anonymous runnable hold reference to an Activity or ViewModel?
Cites nCoder · 2021-10 · Stack Overflow · on “Should I use Workmanager for 3 tasks that should run one after the other? - Android studio”
I am making an application that should do the following tasks: image processing in a bitmap receive String by doing OCR (optical character recognition) in the bitmap that received from task 1 retrieve data from the app's Room's database by searching the keyword that received from task 2 Show the retrieved data on a TextView I want to find a way to these 3 tasks sequentially since they are connected with each other. But i don't know how. At first i thought that if i could just do Bitmap b = imageProcessing(bitmap); String keyword = ocr(b); String data = retrievedata(keyword); textview.setText(data); But as I had read in many articles that's not the right way to run different tasks, because li