Question

I’m having trouble with http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/painless-threading.html It’s been touted as a great source of information on painless threading, but I’m still having trouble even after reading basic documentation on Activities.

Here’s my problem: I am using Eclipse to modify some Android source code that already creates a thread and handler that runs in the background even when I switch to a new activity. What I want is to implement a way for this background thread to provide data to new activities. I’ve looked at .aidl and AsyncTask solutions without success.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks!

Answer 1

If your activities are in the same package/app, you could put a reference to the thread in the Application object so that it can be accessed from all of your Activities. You would need to create a custom Application subclass and reference it in your manifest.

If you are looking at activities from different packages you could use a broadcast receiver model or a bound service I guess.