[java] How to check if current thread is not main thread

Allow me to preface this with: I acknowledged this post has the 'Android' tag, however, my search had nothing to do with 'Android' and this was my top result. To that end, for the non-Android SO Java users landing here, don't forget about:

public static void main(String[] args{
    Thread.currentThread().setName("SomeNameIChoose");
    /*...the rest of main...*/
}

After setting this, elsewhere in your code, you can easily check if you're about to execute on the main thread with:

if(Thread.currentThread().getName().equals("SomeNameIChoose"))
{
    //do something on main thread
}

A bit embarrassed I had searched before remembering this, but hopefully it will help someone else!

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