sendMessage和sendEmptyMessage的区别

看源码 根据参数的不同互相调用
 public final boolean sendMessage(Message msg)
    {
        return sendMessageDelayed(msg, 0);
    }

    /**
     * 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);
    }

//
/**
* 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);
}
就是调用了sendEmptyMessageDelayed（）而已，下面看下这个方法：
/**
* 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);
}
而sendMessage（Message msg）的实现和上面一样，请看：
/**
* Pushes a message onto the end of the message queue after all pending messages
* before the current time. It will be received in {@link #handleMessage},
* in the thread attached to this handler.
* 
* @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 sendMessage(Message msg)
{
return sendMessageDelayed(msg, 0);
}
原来在sendEmptyMessageDelayed中就是构建了一个Message,然后把这个Message的what设置成sendEmptyMessage方法中的What参数即可。

sendMessage()允许你处理Message对象(Message里可以包含数据,)。
sendEmptyMessage()只能放数据 ,并且是从消息池获取的message, 性能上比sendMessage快. 只是不能操作这个对象