Android / threading ...

Hi there,

        I just got a crash in the PresentationActivity timerUpdateThread - it's
not related to this (I think) - but I guess this could cause some
nasties I suppose. It seems we're talking to the GUI from multiple
threads concurrently:

http://developer.android.com/guide/components/processes-and-threads.html

        "Additionally, the Andoid UI toolkit is not thread-safe. So, you must
not manipulate your UI from a worker thread—you must do all manipulation
to your user interface from the UI thread. Thus, there are simply two
rules to Android's single thread model:

     1. Do not block the UI thread
     2. Do not access the Android UI toolkit from outside the UI thread"

        I was also amused to stumble over this:

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kgh/archive/2004/10/multithreaded_t.html

        Which is quite amusing ;-) Anyhow - perhaps I'm missing something - I
don't know what mTimeLabel.setText really does so ...

        Are we doing our slower IPC in a thread and leaving the main thread to
render ? (things are responsive so I assume so generally :-).

        Thanks !

                Michael.

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