Handler的官方描述:
A Handler allows you to send and process Message
and Runnable objects associated with a thread's MessageQueue
. 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
Handler的使用场合:
1、 to schedule messages and runnables to be executed as some point in the future;
安排messages和runnables在将来的某个时间点执行。
2、 to enqueue an action to be performed on a different thread than your own.
将action入队以备在一个不同的线程中执行。即可以实现线程间通信。比如当你创建子线程时,你可以再你的子线程中拿到父线程中创建的Handler对象,就可以通过该对象向父线程的消息队列发送消息了。由于Android要求在UI线程中更新界面,因此,可以通过该方法在其它线程中更新界面。
通过Handler更新UI实例:
步骤:
1、创建Handler对象(此处创建于主线程中便于更新UI)。
2、构建Runnable对象,在Runnable中更新界面。
3、在子线程的run方法中向UI线程post,runnable对象来更新UI。
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class SimpleClientActivity extends Activity {
private static final String TAG = "SimpleClientActivity";
private TextView show;
private Handler handler = null;
private String line;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_simple_client);
show = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.show);
handler = new Handler();
new Thread(commRunnable).start();
}
Runnable commRunnable = new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
try {
Socket socket = new Socket("192.168.1.188", 30000);
Log.i(TAG, socket.toString());
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
line = br.readLine();
handler.post(updateRunnable);
br.close();
socket.close();
} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
};
Runnable updateRunnable = new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
show.setText("来自服务器的数据:"+ line);
}
};
}