Running code in main thread from another thread

Question

In an android service I have created thread(s) for doing some background task.

I have a situation where a thread needs to post certain task on main thread\'s message

Answer 1

Follow this method. Using this way you can simply update the UI from a background thread. runOnUiThread work on the main(UI) thread . I think this code snippet is less complex and easy, especially for beginners.

AsyncTask.execute(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {

            //code you want to run on the background
            someCode();

           //the code you want to run on main thread
 MainActivity.this.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {

                    public void run() {

/*the code you want to run after the background operation otherwise they will executed earlier and give you an error*/
                        executeAfterOperation();

                   }
                });
            }
        });

in the case of a service

create a handler in the oncreate

 handler = new Handler();

then use it like this

 private void runOnUiThread(Runnable runnable) {
        handler.post(runnable);
    }