Android - Best and safe way to stop thread

Question

I want to know which is the best way to stop a thread in Android. I know I can use AsyncTask instead of it and that there is a cancel() method. I have to use Threads in my situation. Here is how I'm using Thread:

Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            //doing some work
        }
    };
new Thread(runnable).start();

So, does anyone have any idea of which is the best way to stop a thread?

Answer 1

You should make your thread support interrupts. Basically, you can call yourThread.interrupt() to stop the thread and, in your run() method you'd need to periodically check the status of Thread.interrupted()

There is a good tutorial here.