new Thread(task).start() VS ThreadPoolExecutor.submit(task) in Android

Question

In my Android project I had a lot of places where I need to run some code asynchronously (a web request, call to db etc.). This is not long running tasks (maximum a few seco

Answer 1

Based on the comment of Ordous I have modified my code to work with only one pool.

public class App extends Application {

    private ThreadPoolExecutor mPool;

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();

        mPool =  new ThreadPoolExecutor(5, Integer.MAX_VALUE, 1, TimeUnit.MINUTES, new SynchronousQueue());
    }
}


public void submitRunnableTask(Runnable task){
    if(!mPool.isShutdown() && mPool.getActiveCount() != mPool.getMaximumPoolSize()){
        mPool.submit(task);
    } else {
        new Thread(task).start(); // Actually this should never happen, just in case...
    }
}

So, I hope this can be useful to someone else, and if more experienced people have some comments on my approach, I will very appreciate their comments.