SugarTask

Android lifecycle safety task with sugar code style.

Support Android API 14 and UP.

If you have any question or want to discuss, just open an issue. Pull request is always welcome :)

Gradle

At your top-level build.gradle file:

repositories {
    // ...
    maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
}

And then at your project build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    compile 'com.github.mthli:SugarTask:v0.4'
}

Done!

Usage

At your MainThread(UIThread), start a background thread just like this:

SugarTask.with(this) // Activity|FragmentActivity(v4)|Fragment|Fragment(v4)
        .assign(new SugarTask.TaskDescription() {
            @Override
            public Object onBackground() {
                // Do what you want to do on background thread.
                // If you want to post something to MainThread,
                // just call SugarTask.post(YOUR_MESSAGE).

                // Return your finally result(Nullable).
                return null;
            }
        })
        .handle(new SugarTask.MessageListener() {
            @Override
            public void handleMessage(@NonNull Message message) {
                // Receive message in MainThread which sent from WorkerThread,
                // update your UI just in time.
            }
        })
        .finish(new SugarTask.FinishListener() {
            @Override
            public void onFinish(@Nullable Object result) {
                // If WorkerThread finish without Exception and lifecycle safety,
                // deal with your WorkerThread result at here.
            }
        })
        .broken(new SugarTask.BrokenListener() {
            @Override
            public void onBroken(@NonNull Exception e) {
                // If WorkerThread finish with Exception and lifecycle safety,
                // deal with Exception at here.
            }
        })
        .execute();

Your don't need to conside about Activity/Fragment lifecycle, no matter screen rotating or some others.

Really nice for you :)

And here is a simple example for your.

Notice:

MUST: .with(), .assign(), .execute().
OPTION: .handle(), .finish(), broken(). Every method just call once, otherwise the newer with replace the older.
Use SugarTask.post() To send message from WorkerThread to MainThread just in time.

Theory

How to get Activity/Fragment lifecycle state real-time?

It's easy, just add a hook fragment to Activity/Fragment by their FragmentManager, the hook fragment will follow it's parent lifecycle, so we get state real-time :)

When Activity/Fragment is onStop(), we just cancel all MainThread callback, so that avoid OOM/NPE.

Get more information from our source code.

SugarTask is so simple that it just works good for easy task, if you need more functions, just have a look at RxAndroid.

Thanks

Glide

License

Copyright 2015 Matthew Lee

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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