Getting a HandlerThread. (Android Performance Patterns Season 5, Ep. 5)

While AsyncTask is the most useful threading class you can use, there’s some situations where it just doesn’t make sense. For example, AsyncTasks aren’t good for long-running work, or for threaded callbacks.

In this video Colt McAnlis shows how HandlerThread can be used to pick up the slack. This dedicated, long-running thread resource is ideal for situations where you have to process big workloads, or if you need a place to get an API result back, in a threaded manner.

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