Handler、Message的简单使用

Android没有全局的消息队列，Android的消息队列是和某个线程相关联在一起的。每个线程最多只有一个消息队列，消息的处理也是在这个线程中完成。也就是说，如果想在当前线程中使用消息模型，则必须构建一个消息队列，消息机制的主要类是：Looper、Handler、MessageQueue、Message.

1、

public class

Handler

extends Object

java.lang.Object
↳	android.os.Handler

Class Overview

A Handler allows you to send and process Message and Runnable objects associated with a thread'sMessageQueue. Each Handler instance is associated with a single thread and that thread's message queue. When you create a new Handler, it is bound to the thread / message queue of the thread that is creating it -- from that point on, it will deliver messages and runnables to that message queue and execute them as they come out of the message queue.
 

 mHandler = new Handler(){
	public void handleMessage(Message msg){
//int android.os.Message.what
//User-defined message code so that the recipient can identify what this message is about.
switch(msg.what){
		 case UPDATE_TEXT:
		mTextView.setText("text changed");
		 break;
		default:
		 break;
		}
	                                }
		};

public final boolean sendMessage(Message msg)Added inAPI level 1

Pushes a message onto the end of the message queue after all pending messages before the current time. It will be received inhandleMessage(Message), in the thread attached to this handler.

Returns

• Returns true if the message was successfully placed in to the message queue. Returns false on failure, usually because the looper processing the message queue is exiting.

Message mMessage = Message.obtain(mHandler, UPDATE_TEXT);

//Pushes a message onto the end of the message queue after all pending messages before the current time. 
mHandler.sendMessage(mMessage);

Handler负责将Message发送至当前线程的MessageQueue中，处理消息。发送消息一般是使用Handler的sendMessage方法，发出的消息最终会传递到Handler的handleMessage()方法中。

public final class

2、

Looper

extends Object

java.lang.Object
↳	android.os.Looper

Class Overview

Class used to run a message loop for a thread. Threads by default do not have a message loop associated with them; to create one, callprepare() in the thread that is to run the loop, and thenloop() to have it process messages until the loop is stopped.

Most interaction with a message loop is through the Handler class. 

Looper时时刻刻监视着MessageQueue， 是每个线程中的MessageQueue管家，每个线程中只有一个Looper，调用其loop()方法就会进入到一个无限循环中，每当发现MessageQueue中存在一条消息，就