Thread Queue for Android

Question

I would like the work / task queue to be executed in a separate thread, but can only process one work at a time. So not at the same time.

Is there something built in for Android?

Thank,

EDIT: Work = get information from the database. After that, update the user interface with the extracted information.

Answer 1

Have you checked java.util.concurrent.Executors? You can do something like this:

final static ExecutorService tpe = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
...
tpe.submit(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        // your work
    }
}):

This is not a specific android, it is part of jdk5.

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Android Loader.

http://developer.android.com/guide/components/loaders.html