None of those are precisely the same, though they will all have the same net effect.
The difference between the first and the second is that if you happen to be on the main application thread when executing the code, the first one (runOnUiThread()
) will execute the Runnable
immediately. The second one (post()
) always puts the Runnable
at the end of the event queue, even if you are already on the main application thread.
The third one, assuming you create and execute an instance of BackgroundTask
, will waste a lot of time grabbing a thread out of the thread pool, to execute a default no-op doInBackground()
, before eventually doing what amounts to a post()
. This is by far the least efficient of the three. Use AsyncTask
if you actually have work to do in a background thread, not just for the use of onPostExecute()
.