sendBroadcast thru UI or non-UI thread?

Question

Is it better (for performance) to send a broadcast (ACTION_APPWIDGET_UPDATE in my case), in a separate thread than the UI thread (a runnable)? Or is it acceptable practice to do so on the UI thread?

Answer 1

You can read in documentation for sendBroadcast:

This call is asynchronous; it returns immediately, and you will continue executing while the receivers are run.

so it is perfectly safe to call it on UI thread