'Stop Thread in background
Can any body please help me out? My problem is I have a thread(TCP socket) class in android which starts when android app login but I want to stop thread when application is in background, please let me know how can I do it? because it is consuming huge cpu performance and ram also hanging my device.
Solution 1:[1]
Base on my experience, you can set the timeout to a very short number, and close the Socket if your app goes to background.
Let me explain more...
- register a permission to receive the event of app-goes-to-background
- start a new Socket with very short timeout setting.
- when you received the event of app-goes-to-background, mark a global flag
- while waiting for new message from remote server that connected by the Socket, a exception will be trigger when timed-out. During this situation, check the abovementioned global flag. If the flag shows your are in app-goes-to-background status, close the socket (and maybe trigger another thread to check the status of the global flag, so that you can start a new Socket). If the flag shows you are NOT in the background, just keep receiving new message from remote server (and wait for next timeout).
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