new Runnable() but no new thread?

Question

I\'m trying to understand the code here , specifically the anonymous class

private Runnable mUpdateTimeTask = new Runnable() {
public void run() {
   final l         


        

Answer 1

If you want to create a new Thread...you can do something like this...

Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable() { public void run() { 
  // your code goes here... 
}});