Lecture 6

// Declare some specifications

private class TaskSpec {

    TaskSpec() {}

    public String myString;

}

TaskSpec spec = new TaskSpec();

spec.myString = "something";

// Starting a thread

MyTask task = new MyTask(spec);

Thread myThread = new Thread(task);

myThread.start();

// This is the code that will run in the thread

private class myTask implements Runnable {

    mySpec spec;

    boolean stopped;

    myTask(mySpec _spec) {

        spec = _spec;

        stopped = false;

    }

    public void stopTask() {

        stopped = true;

    }

    @Override

        public void run() {

        String myString = spec.myString;

        // ...

        int numTries = 0;

        while (numTries < MainActivity.MAX_TRIES && !stopped) {

            numTries++;

            // ...

        }

    }

}

// Declare this in the activity

private Object mLock; 

synchronized(mLock) {

    // Code that will be syncronized

}