MultiThreading, AsyncTask and UI thread

Question

I am developing an app in which I am playing multiple videos at a time. Also performing some operations at same time.

Now I am successful in running 2 videos at a time using VideoView by having reference from here and here.

Both options are working fine for me. But my question is, is it safe to play 2 videos at a time on UI thread or shall I go with option creating threads and playing them separately or shall I use AsyncTask or is it safe to use UI thread directly?? And please tell me the difference of using all 3 approaches.

Answer 1

when you play a video it does decoding, buffering in background. It doesn't do this work on UI thread. You probably only need to call start() function on UI thread.