For Loop Until Button Is Pressed in Android - Stack Overflow PDF

The document is a question posted on Stack Overflow asking how to run a for loop continuously until a button is pressed in Android. The question includes sample code showing an attempt to write array data to a CSV file stored on the SD card. Respondents suggest using a background thread or AsyncTask to run the loop, and checking for button presses to end the loop. One response provides an AsyncTask code example to run long-running work on a background thread.

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for loop until button is pressed in Android?

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csv

I am new to Android. How can I run this For loop until the button is pressed? I am writing saved data of array into CSV file and storing it onto
SDcard. I want to keep the loop running until I press writeFileBtn and it saves the data into CSV.
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {

});

CSVWriter writer = null;

try
{
writer = new CSVWriter(new FileWriter(Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_DCIM) + "myfile.csv"), ',');
//String[] entries = "first#second#third".split("#"); // array of your values
writer.writeNext(entriesArr);
writer.close();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Error",
Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

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Muntazir Abbas
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Dec 4 '15 at 16:16

Liuting
530 7 25

Edited
Dec 4 '15 at 16:49

short answer ... you need new Thread ... basically in run() of thread {while(running){ /*loop here*/} /* write file here*/ } ... then in on click of first button you starting
the thread ... and in second set running to false ... Selvin Dec 4 '15 at 16:19
of course it is just POC and have some caveats ... the real implementation should take to an account that activity can be closed ... or recreated ... so it would be
better to use fx service ..... etc. Selvin Dec 4 '15 at 16:25

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You should use an AsyncTask to do this work on background.

private class DownloadFilesTask extends AsyncTask<URL, Integer, Long> {

protected Long doInBackground(URL... urls) {
int count = urls.length;
long totalSize = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
totalSize += Downloader.downloadFile(urls[i]);
publishProgress((int) ((i / (float) count) * 100));
// Escape early if cancel() is called
if (isCancelled()) break;
}
return totalSize;
}
protected void onProgressUpdate(Integer... progress) {
setProgressPercent(progress[0]);
}
protected void onPostExecute(Long result) {
showDialog("Downloaded " + result + " bytes");
}

}
AsynkTask provides you a isCancelled() that can be used by your button.

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josealfonsomora
51 4

Answered
Dec 4 '15 at 16:29

The problem is I am really new to this coding. I have tried many solutions but not successful so far. Can somebody help me in modification my code already
mentioned above? Muntazir Abbas Dec 4 '15 at 16:33
you mean: writing the code for you, for free? why? josealfonsomora's example should be enough Selvin Dec 4 '15 at 16:36

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