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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Hooking Up the Model to the View Plugging in the Data

Posted by Michael Robb
Michael Robb
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Why don't dialogues need to be created in runOnUiThread()?

In the onFailure() method we have to make a call to runOnUiThread() in order to toggle the visibility of ui elements because the callback method is running in a background thread, but this method isn't needed to create an alert dialog. Why can dialogues be handled in a background thread if they are apart of the ui?