Handler stopping up main thread

I'm trying to use a handler to allow the ui of the app to load before a processor intensive task is completed. I've tried using AsyncTask but that yielded even worse results.

AsyncTask

public class MyEditView extends AppCompatEditText
Handler handler;

public MyEditView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
super(context, attrs);
init(context);

public MyEditView(Context context)
super(context);
init(context);


private void init(final Context context)
handler = new Handler();
//Removing handler.post speeds up the load of the activity significantly
handler.post(new Runnable()
@Override
public void run()
Interpreters.ENGLISH.init(context); //Load 133911 line txt file

);




1 Answer
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Do processor intensive tasks off ui thread, this handler posts runnables to the same thread it is created on, which is ui thread according to the code snippet.

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