[android-developers] How to force quit a Thread

I am creating an app that sends various HTTP requests in seperate threads, while doing so brings up a loading screen. If the network request is taking longer then the user expects, I want them to be able to press the back button to force quit the thread, and dismiss the loading screen.

I have my thread set up as:

dataThread = new Thread(new Runnable() {

public void run() {

//...

//Networking Data and Handlers

//...

}

});

dataThread.start();

and where I want to force quit at onBackPressed() I have tried:

dataThread.stop();

dataThread.destroy();

dataThread.interrupt();

And none of them work, Android does not support stop(), or destroy(), and interrupt() does nothing to stop the thread. I do not care about exceptions as everything will be caught, I just want it to allow the user to resume doing what they want, if it hangs on requests, or even retry the request..

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

~Matt

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