How to stop Handler in Android

Question

In my application I have created a calendar with Gridview and in that Gridview I am displaying dates and some availability of events with the help of Imageview and to do this I have created a handler.

Now I want to stop the handler.

MainActivity.java

// inside oncreate

Handler handler = new Handler();
refreshCalendar();

// outside oncreate

public void refreshCalendar() { 
    calAdapter.refreshDays();
    calAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
    handler.post(calendarUpdater);
    calTitle.setText(android.text.format.DateFormat.format("MMMM yyyy", cal));
}
public Runnable calendarUpdater = new Runnable() {

    @Override
    public void run() {
        items.clear();
        allData = new ArrayList<HashMap<String,String>>();
        allData.clear();
        allData = db.showAllEvents();

        String currentDate = (String)android.text.format.DateFormat.format("MM/yyyy", cal);
        for(int i=0; i<allData.size(); i++)
        {
            String date[] = allData.get(i).get("date").split("/");
            String md[] = currentDate.split("/");
            if(date[1].equals(md[0]) && date[2].equals(md[1]))
            {
                items.add(date[0]);
                System.out.println("dates: "+date[0]);
            }
        }
        calAdapter.setItems(items);
        calAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
    }
};

Please tell me how and where I should disable this thread.

Juned · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-27T10:30:31.327

You can use this to stop that runnable

handler.removeCallbacks(calendarUpdater);

removeCallbacks(Runnable r) :Remove any pending posts of Runnable r that are in the message queue.

Edit

You can organize your code like this

In your onCreate() of MainActivity.java

Handler handler = new Handler();
refreshCalendar()

//outside  oncreate 

public void refreshCalendar() { 
    calAdapter.refreshDays();
    calAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
    startRepeatingTask();
    calTitle.setText(android.text.format.DateFormat.format("MMMM yyyy", cal));
}

public Runnable calendarUpdater = new Runnable() {

    @Override
    public void run() {
        items.clear();
        allData = new ArrayList<HashMap<String,String>>();
        allData.clear();
        allData = db.showAllEvents();

        String currentDate = (String)android.text.format.DateFormat.format("MM/yyyy", cal);
        for(int i=0; i<allData.size(); i++)
        {
            String date[] = allData.get(i).get("date").split("/");
            String md[] = currentDate.split("/");
            if(date[1].equals(md[0]) && date[2].equals(md[1]))
            {
                items.add(date[0]);
                System.out.println("dates: "+date[0]);
            }
        }
        calAdapter.setItems(items);
        calAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
        handler.postDelayed(calendarUpdater,5000); // 5 seconds
    }
};

void startRepeatingTask()
{
    calendarUpdater.run(); 
}

void stopRepeatingTask()
{
    handler.removeCallbacks(calendarUpdater);
}

Now you can just call startRepeatingTask() to posting message and to stop use stopRepeatingTask()

Inherited from following link

Repeat a task with a time delay?

where to put this code? when i put this code after the handler.post() then it don't event start — Abhishek Dhiman, Jan 29 '13 at 12:06

score 12 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 20 '17 at 10:42

12

Try below line,

handler.removeMessages(0);

Remove any pending posts of messages with code what that are in the message queue.

edited Dec 20 '17 at 10:42

MinnuKaAnae

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answered Jan 28 '13 at 07:30

MuraliGanesan

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score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 28 '13 at 07:29

Handler has nothing to be stopped or started. It's just a gateway to post Messages and Runnables onto thread Queue. In your case you are posting a Runnable, which will be run on Handler's thread. You have to stop that Runnable. So, put a check in that for loop to break it.

You can also use removeCallbacks(Runnable r) on Handler to cancel posted Runnable's. But this won't remove those Runnable's which are already running.

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 23 '17 at 16:14

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You should try this onStop():

handler.removeCallbacksAndMessages(calendarUpdater);

edited Dec 23 '17 at 16:14

kiner_shah

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answered Dec 23 '17 at 15:06

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comment quality answer. – Mathews Sunny Dec 23 '17 at 15:30

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 22 '17 at 11:41

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Make handler a field. Then in your activity, override onStop method and stop handler call back messages like this:

@Override
    protected void onStop() {
        super.onStop();
        handler.removeCallbacks(calendarUpdater);
    }

answered Aug 22 '17 at 11:41

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