Re: [android-developers] How to force quit a Thread

stop(),destroy() etc. methods were deprecated by JDK versions, so must have not got support now. To stop thread, you should try to use flags, AFAIK.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Matt Clark <mrclark32493@gmail.com> wrote:

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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