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Android Threads and Services Threads in Android Creating a Thread

Posted by Kamran Arshad
Kamran Arshad
9,312 Points

We've been seeing a lot of "Application Not Responding" errors with our custom Twitter app. Could you fix this by moving

./MainActivity.java:22: error: expected thread.setName("TwitterThread"); ^ ./MainActivity.java:22: error: illegal start of type thread.setName("TwitterThread"); ^ ./MainActivity.java:23: error: expected thread.start(); ^ ./MainActivity.java:22: error: package thread does not exist thread.setName("TwitterThread"); ^ ./MainActivity.java:23: error: package thread does not exist thread.start(); ^ 5 errors

MainActivity.java 
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    TwitterClient twitterClient = new TwitterClient();

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

 TwitterThread twitterThread = new TwitterThread();
      twitterThread.setName("TwitterThread");
      twitterThread.start();
    }

    public class TwitterThread extends Thread {
      Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
          twitterClient.update();
        }
      };

      Thread thread = new Thread(runnable);
                thread.setName("TwitterThread");
        thread.start();
    }
}