10_Threads.md

Multithreading in Android

Objective

Students will become comfortable with:

• what processes and threads are in general
• how processes and threads work on Android
• the role of the main (aka UI) thread and what to do and NOT do
• the different ways to work with threading on Android

Do Now (Morning)

Create a number-guessing Android app. The app should prompt a user to guess a number between 1 and 10, and when the user hits the "submit" button, it tells the user if it guessed correctly.

Add a feature so that it gives the user 5 seconds to guess a number. User the sleep method in order to pause execution for 5 seconds.

Lesson (Morning)

Slides here

Processes

Threads

The UI Thread

Background Threads

Pod Meetings

Do Now (Afternoon)

Lesson (Afternoon)

Concurrency Models

Runnables

AsyncTask

IntentService

Handlers

Assessment

Exit Ticket

Resources

Video Tutorials:

• #1 Processes and Threads, an Overview
• #4 Components and the UI Thread
• #5 Android Multithreading Overview
• #11 Intro to Handlers & Loopers
• #15 Intro to AsyncTasks