Pass a Message From Thread to Update UI

Question

Ive created a new thread for a file browser. The thread reads the contents of a directory. What I want to do is update the UI thread to draw a graphical representation of the fi

Answer 1

Check out AsyncTask for this kind of stuff. It's really much more elegant than rolling your own handler and passing messages back and forth.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.html