Re: [android-developers] Re: one AsyncTask at a time

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:13 AM, bob <bob@coolgroups.com> wrote:
> That's a possibility.  Or, I might use this function I wrote:
>
>        void replaceCurrentTask(android.os.AsyncTask<Void, Void, Long>
> newTask){
>                if (currentTask != null)  {
>
>                        currentTask.cancel(true);
>                        while (!currentTask.isCancelled() && currentTask.getStatus()!
> =AsyncTask.Status.FINISHED) trytosleep(1);
>                }
>
>                currentTask=newTask;
>                currentTask.execute();
>
>        }

Yuck.

Use a LinkedBlockingQueue and your own thread working jobs off of that
queue, rather than AsyncTask.

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