I have an image view , i had written swiping , at that time of swiping,the images are downloading from Internet, so i thought i have to download the images in the background before swiping , for that which i need to use asynctask or Service or IntentService, all these will help in downloading and storing in data/data/mypackages , but still swiping gets slow in my case any idea, also convey me which one is best one, is it i'm calling in a right way
1. asynctask
2. services
3. Intent Service as shown below,
i m confused which one is right method because still my problem not solved
Here's asynctask code sample snippet
public class Demo extends Activity {
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
new FirstTask().execute(); // calling Asynctask here
}
}
Async Task code
private class FirstTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
private final ProgressDialog dialog = new ProgressDialog(Catalogue.this);
int temp = 0;
// can use UI thread here
protected void onPreExecute() {
this.dialog.setMessage("Loading...");
this.dialog.setCancelable(false);
//this.dialog.show();
System.gc();
Toast.makeText(Catalogue.this, "My Async Created",
Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
@Override
protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
Looper.prepare();
try {
myddownloadmethod();// calling my download method
} catch (Exception e) {
Util.trace("Error in Async"+e.getMessage());
}
Looper.loop();
return null;
}
protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
if (this.dialog.isShowing()) {
Toast.makeText(Catalogue.this, "My Async destroyed",
Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
Toast.makeText(Catalogue.this, "count" + temp,
Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
this.dialog.dismiss();
}
}
}
Here's My Service sinppet
public class MyService extends Service implements Runnable
{ @Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
Thread mythread = new Thread(this);
mythread.start();
}
public void run() {
Looper.prepare();
try {
myddownloadmethod();// calling my download method
} catch (Exception e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
Looper.loop();
}
@Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return null;
}
}
Invoking Service
public class ServicesDemo extends Activity {
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
startService(new Intent(this, MyService.class));
}
}
Here's IntentService Code
public class Downloader extends IntentService {
public Downloader() {
super("Downloader");
}
@Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
}
@Override
public void onDestroy() {
super.onDestroy();
}
@Override
public void onHandleIntent(Intent i) {
try {
myddownloadmethod();// calling my download method
} catch (Exception e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
Log.d("Error",e1.getMessage());
}
}
}
Calling IntentService from MyActivity
public class ServicesDemo extends Activity {
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Intent i1=new Intent(this, Downloader.class);
startService(i1);
}
}
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