How Do I Know If an Android Thread Is Running?
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If you called start on it, and it is running, you will get an IllegalThreadStateException . Catching that is one way to know. Another option is to extend Thread and add a boolean where you keep track of whether or not your Thread has been started.

How do you check whether a thread is running or not?

To check whether a thread is alive use the isAlive() method of Thread class. It will return true if this thread is alive, otherwise return false .

How does the threading work in Android?

When an application is launched in Android, it creates the first thread of execution, known as the “main” thread. The main thread is responsible for dispatching events to the appropriate user interface widgets as well as communicating with components from the Android UI toolkit.

Sophia Al-Mansoor

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