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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Android SwingWorker

I've been fooling around with the Android development platform. It's quite an adjustment, coming from the iPhone world. More thoughts to follow, although probably on a different blog. I'm getting sick of this blogger nonsense.

Anyways, I thought I'd post a simple equivalent to the SwingWorker class that works with Android's Event Dispatch Thread. Here it is:


package ca.razorwire.util;

import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;

import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.Looper;
import android.util.Log;

public abstract class UIWorker
{
private static final ExecutorService __execSvc;
private static final Handler __edtHandler;

private static final String TAG = "UIWorker";

static
{
__execSvc = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
__edtHandler = new Handler( Looper.getMainLooper() );
}

public abstract void doInBackground();

public void done()
{
// Log.d(TAG, "done() executing in thread " + Thread.currentThread().getName() );
// This space intentionally left blank
}

public void execute()
{
// Log.d(TAG, "execute() executing in thread " + Thread.currentThread().getName() );
final Runnable doneRunner = new Runnable()
{
public void run()
{
UIWorker.this.done();
}
};

final Runnable bgRunner = new Runnable()
{
public void run()
{
// Log.d(TAG, "bgRunner executing in thread " + Thread.currentThread().getName() );
UIWorker.this.doInBackground();
__edtHandler.post( doneRunner );
}
};
__execSvc.submit(bgRunner);
}
}


And here's a sample usage:


UIWorker worker = new UIWorker()
{
public void doInBackground()
{
Log.d( TAG, "Sleeping for a bit." );
try { Thread.sleep( 10000 ); } catch ( Exception ignore ) {};
}
};
Log.d( TAG, "Executing worker..." );
worker.execute();
Log.d( TAG, "Returned from execute()" );


If you uncomment the Log calls in UIWorker, you should see some output like this:


07-08 12:14:11.015: DEBUG/rweeks(1078): Executing worker...
07-08 12:14:11.015: DEBUG/UIWorker(1078): execute() executing in threadmain
07-08 12:14:11.025: DEBUG/UIWorker(1078): bgRunner executing in thread pool-1-thread-1
07-08 12:14:11.035: DEBUG/rweeks(1078): Sleeping for a bit.
07-08 12:14:11.035: DEBUG/rweeks(1078): Returned from execute()
07-08 12:14:21.038: DEBUG/UIWorker(1078): done() executing in thread main


I'm 100% sure that Blogger is going to screw up the formatting.

Public domain code, no guarantees, seems to work.

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