Question

hi mate i have a thread that use looper. in the looper when he receive message , he call a blocking method (style read socket). How can can write method StopThread to stop this thread to terminate him ? have i to call quit on Handler or interrupt to thread ?
this is the code:

    class LooperThread extends Thread {
          public Handler mHandler;

          public void run() {
              Looper.prepare();

              mHandler = new Handler() {
                  public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
                  try{
                 blocking call read
                  }catch(Interrupet Exception e) {  }
                  }
              };

              Looper.loop();
          }
public void stopThread(){    ??? }
      }

Answer 1

Call

thread.interrupt() 

to interrupt the thread.
Edit: You will have to post a runnable on the thread.

looperthread.handler.postrunnable(new Runnable(){

run(){
  Looper.myLooper().quit();
}
});