Nugget Post: Android Process Dialog

Posted on by David Vassallo

A lesson that took me an hour to figure out: android progress dialogues will only be displayed on the UI if called/shown in a thread or async task. Basically when try to call a progress dialog directly from a fragment, android would simply not show the dialog. So the code would look something like this: https://gist.github.com/dvas0004/10993182   … Continue reading Nugget Post: Android Process Dialog

Nugget Post: Android threads and array adapters

Posted on by David Vassallo

An important point of note when using array adapters in android is that the notifyDataSetChanged method can only be called in the main UI thread. So when developing multithread android apps, it's important that the method is called within a runOnUiThread or similar. The notifyDataSetChanged is used to inform an array adapter that it's data source has been updated, so … Continue reading Nugget Post: Android threads and array adapters