56.10 Working with Runnable Tasks

The first step in exploring this framework is to modify the buttonClicked() method to use a concurrency framework Executor to run the task in a separate thread:

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import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;

import java.util.concurrent.Executors;

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    public void buttonClick(View view) {

        ExecutorService executor = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();

        executor.submit(new Runnable(){

            public void run(){

                long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis() + 10 * 1000;

                while (System.currentTimeMillis() < endTime) {

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