Question

I am creating an android app and I am connecting and exchanging data with a remote server. Up to now, I have been using threads and handlers withing my activity class to interface with the server, but the code is getting increasingly messy and long. I believe that having more classes would make it (the code) easier to manage.

This is probably a large gap in my programming knowledge, but I can’t figure out how to put runnables in different classes and then have them return messages to the main activity.

Thankyou in advance, sample code is preferred in answers.

Answer 1

You can pass a handler from the activity to the second class, and pass a message through it when needed.

public class MyActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstance) {
        // ....
        Handler myHandler = new Handler() {
            @Override
            public void handleMessage (Message msg) {
                doCoolStuffWhenMessageReceived();
            }
        }
        MySecondClass secondClass = new MySecondClass(myHandler);
        // ....
    }
}

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public class MySecondClass {
    private Handler handler;
    public MySecondClass(Handler handler){
        this.handler = handler;
    }

    private void someMethodToCallActivity() {
        handler.sendEmptyMessage(0);
    }

}