How to update LiveData of a ViewModel from background service and Update UI

Question

Recently I am exploring Android Architecture, that has been introduced recently by google. From the Documentation I have found this:

public class MyViewModel         


        

Answer 1

... in the loadUsers() function I am fetching the data asynchronously ... If I start a Service to call the API from the loadUsers() method, how can I update the MutableLiveData> users variable from that Service?

If the app is fetching user data on a background thread, postValue (rather than setValue) will be useful.

In the loadData method there is a reference to the MutableLiveData "users" object. The loadData method also fetches some fresh user data from somewhere (for example, a repository).

Now, if execution is on a background thread, MutableLiveData.postValue() updates outside observers of the MutableLiveData object.

Maybe something like this:

private MutableLiveData> users;

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private void loadUsers() {
    // do async operation to fetch users
    ExecutorService service =  Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
    service.submit(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            // on background thread, obtain a fresh list of users
            List freshUserList = aRepositorySomewhere.getUsers();

            // now that you have the fresh user data in freshUserList, 
            // make it available to outside observers of the "users" 
            // MutableLiveData object
            users.postValue(freshUserList);        
        }
    });

}