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How many Worker Threads can be created at most?

In my tablet app I use many Fragments (of one class) next to eachother in one activity, and in this Fragment class I have:

public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);

    getLoaderManager().initLoader(this.position, null, this);
}

and

public Loader<Cursor> onCreateLoader(int id, Bundle args) {
    Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(...)
    return new CursorLoader(getActivity(), uri, proj, null, null, "distance");
}

Each Fragment starts a new worker thread for a CursorLoader. How far does this scale?

Solution

  • There is no hard limit. However, if you are concerned about the number of threads you are starting, use AsyncTask as its doInBackground method runs in a pool of background threads. More information