Looper is created by default on main UI
Property:
// main ui thread, if Looper is initialized in another thread, it would be a new thread
// class xx extends Thread. => here is a new thread.
mThread
mMessageQueue // empty
loop()
for(;;) {
message = mMessageQueue.next()
message.target.dispatchMessage(message);
}
Handler
Property:
mLooper = Looper.myLooper();
mQueue = mLooper.mQueue;
mCallback = callback;
sendMessage
mQueue.enqueueMessage(msg, uptimeMillis);
interface Callback {
public boolean handleMessage(Message msg);
}
dispatchMessage(Message msg) { // ingore Message‘s properties
if (mCallback != null) {
if (mCallback.handleMessage(msg)) {
return;
}
}
handleMessage(msg);
}
handler make connection with Looper by adding looper object into handler.
handler from thread A sends message to looper.MQ
MQ is looped in thread B.
Looper processed MQ messages by sequence from different threads.