Android中Handler的sendEmptyMessage的理解

在写代码的过程中，碰到一行代码不理解，去看了下源码，来记录下。

mHandler.sendEmptyMessage(0);

sendEmptyMessage这个方法之前没有碰到过，查阅源码后发现：

    /**
     * Sends a Message containing only the what value.
     *  
     * @return 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.
     */
    public final boolean sendEmptyMessage(int what)
    {
        return sendEmptyMessageDelayed(what, 0);
    }

发现底层调用了sendEmptyMessageDelayed方法，

这个的解释是，只发送一个包含what值的message。

继续看源码：

    /**
     * Sends a Message containing only the what value, to be delivered
     * after the specified amount of time elapses.
     * @see #sendMessageDelayed(android.os.Message, long) 
     * 
     * @return 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.
     */
    public final boolean sendEmptyMessageDelayed(int what, long delayMillis) {
        Message msg = Message.obtain();
        msg.what = what;
        return sendMessageDelayed(msg, delayMillis);
    }

看到这里就知道了，确实发送了一个只包含what值的消息。

确实，不看源码的话，完全不知道这个方法到底做了什么，看来以后还是要多多阅读源码。