Android Question when p.shell ping,main thread is blocked.how to change ?

[hears]

Dim p As Phone
Dim sb As StringBuilder
    sb.Initialize
    p.Shell("ping -c 1 192.168.0.1",Null,sb,Null)
Log(sb)

in my app must use ping function
,cannot use http test.

so main thread alway stop.how to do ?

how to start a new thread PING ?
after just display ping result in main activity.

 

[walterf25]

Dim p As Phone
Dim sb As StringBuilder
    sb.Initialize
    p.Shell("ping -c 1 192.168.0.1",Null,sb,Null)
Log(sb)

in my app must use ping function
,cannot use http test.

so main thread alway stop.how to do ?

how to start a new thread PING ?
after just display ping result in main activity.

You can use a timer and set the timer to fire up every few milliseconds or whatever your need to ping is, you could also probably try a Service and schedule the service to run every few milliseconds.

Regards,
Walter

 

[Erel]

A timer will not help here. Wait for v8.30 to be released. It will include a ShellAsync method.