Android线程管理（二）——ActivityThread

线程通信、ActivityThread及Thread类是理解Android线程管理的关键。

线程，作为CPU调度资源的基本单位，在Android等针对嵌入式设备的操作系统中，有着非常重要和基础的作用。本小节主要从以下三个方面进行分析：

1. 《Android线程管理（一）——线程通信》
2. 《Android线程管理（二）——ActivityThread》 
3. 《Android线程管理（三）——Thread类的内部原理、休眠及唤醒》

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二、ActivityThread的主要工作及实现机制

ActivityThread是Android应用的主线程（UI线程），说起ActivityThread，不得不提到Activity的创建、启动过程以及ActivityManagerService，但本文将仅从线程管理的角度来分析ActivityThread。ActivityManagerService、ActivityStack、ApplicationThread等会在后续文章中详细分析，敬请期待喔~~不过为了说清楚ActivityThread的由来，还是需要简单介绍下。

以下引用自罗升阳大师的博客：《Android应用程序的Activity启动过程简要介绍和学习计划》

Step 1. 无论是通过Launcher来启动Activity，还是通过Activity内部调用startActivity接口来启动新的Activity，都通过Binder进程间通信进入到ActivityManagerService进程中，并且调用ActivityManagerService.startActivity接口； 

Step 2. ActivityManagerService调用ActivityStack.startActivityMayWait来做准备要启动的Activity的相关信息；

Step 3. ActivityStack通知ApplicationThread要进行Activity启动调度了，这里的ApplicationThread代表的是调用ActivityManagerService.startActivity接口的进程，对于通过点击应用程序图标的情景来说，这个进程就是Launcher了，而对于通过在Activity内部调用startActivity的情景来说，这个进程就是这个Activity所在的进程了；

Step 4. ApplicationThread不执行真正的启动操作，它通过调用ActivityManagerService.activityPaused接口进入到ActivityManagerService进程中，看看是否需要创建新的进程来启动Activity；

Step 5. 对于通过点击应用程序图标来启动Activity的情景来说，ActivityManagerService在这一步中，会调用startProcessLocked来创建一个新的进程，而对于通过在Activity内部调用startActivity来启动新的Activity来说，这一步是不需要执行的，因为新的Activity就在原来的Activity所在的进程中进行启动；

Step 6. ActivityManagerServic调用ApplicationThread.scheduleLaunchActivity接口，通知相应的进程执行启动Activity的操作；

Step 7. ApplicationThread把这个启动Activity的操作转发给ActivityThread，ActivityThread通过ClassLoader导入相应的Activity类，然后把它启动起来。

大师的这段描述把ActivityManagerService、ActivityStack、ApplicationThread及ActivityThread的调用关系讲的很清楚，本文将从ActivityThread的main()方法开始分析其主要工作及实现机制。

ActivityThread源码来自：https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/java/android/app/ActivityThread.java

public static void main(String[] args) {
        Trace.traceBegin(Trace.TRACE_TAG_ACTIVITY_MANAGER, "ActivityThreadMain");
        SamplingProfilerIntegration.start();

        // CloseGuard defaults to true and can be quite spammy.  We
        // disable it here, but selectively enable it later (via
        // StrictMode) on debug builds, but using DropBox, not logs.
        CloseGuard.setEnabled(false);

        Environment.initForCurrentUser();

        // Set the reporter for event logging in libcore
        EventLogger.setReporter(new EventLoggingReporter());

        AndroidKeyStoreProvider.install();

        // Make sure TrustedCertificateStore looks in the right place for CA certificates
        final File configDir = Environment.getUserConfigDirectory(UserHandle.myUserId());
        TrustedCertificateStore.setDefaultUserDirectory(configDir);

        Process.setArgV0("<pre-initialized>");

        Looper.prepareMainLooper();

        ActivityThread thread = new ActivityThread();
        thread.attach(false);

        if (sMainThreadHandler == null) {
            sMainThreadHandler = thread.getHandler();
        }

        if (false) {
            Looper.myLooper().setMessageLogging(new
                    LogPrinter(Log.DEBUG, "ActivityThread"));
        }

        // End of event ActivityThreadMain.
        Trace.traceEnd(Trace.TRACE_TAG_ACTIVITY_MANAGER);
        Looper.loop();

        throw new RuntimeException("Main thread loop unexpectedly exited");
    }

上述代码中，红色部分之前的代码主要用于环境初始化、AndroidKeyStoreProvider安装等，这里不做重点说明。红色部分的代码主要分为两个功能块：1）绑定应用进程到ActivityManagerService；2）主线程Handler消息处理。

关于线程通信机制，Handler、MessageQueue、Message及Looper四者的关系请参考上一篇文章《Android线程管理——线程通信》。

2.1 应用进程绑定

main()方法通过thread.attach(false)绑定应用进程。ActivityManagerNative通过getDefault()方法返回ActivityManagerService实例，ActivityManagerService通过attachApplication将ApplicationThread对象绑定到ActivityManagerService，而ApplicationThread作为Binder实现ActivityManagerService对应用进程的通信和控制。

private void attach(boolean system) {
        sCurrentActivityThread = this;
        mSystemThread = system;
        if (!system) {
            ……

            RuntimeInit.setApplicationObject(mAppThread.asBinder());
            final IActivityManager mgr = ActivityManagerNative.getDefault();
            try {
                mgr.attachApplication(mAppThread);
            } catch (RemoteException ex) {
                // Ignore
            }
            ……

        } else {
    ……
    }
}

在ActivityManagerService内部，attachApplication实际是通过调用attachApplicationLocked实现的，这里采用了synchronized关键字保证同步。

@Override
public final void attachApplication(IApplicationThread thread) {
    synchronized (this) {
        int callingPid = Binder.getCallingPid();
        final long origId = Binder.clearCallingIdentity();
        attachApplicationLocked(thread, callingPid);
        Binder.restoreCallingIdentity(origId);
    }
}

attachApplicationLocked的实现较为复杂，其主要功能分为两部分：

• thread.bindApplication

• mStackSupervisor.attachApplicationLocked(app)

private final boolean attachApplicationLocked(IApplicationThread thread,
            int pid) {

        // Find the application record that is being attached...  either via
        // the pid if we are running in multiple processes, or just pull the
        // next app record if we are emulating process with anonymous threads.
        ProcessRecord app;
        if (pid != MY_PID && pid >= 0) {
            synchronized (mPidsSelfLocked) {
                app = mPidsSelfLocked.get(pid);
            }
        } else {
            app = null;
        }
       // ……
        try {
           // ……
            thread.bindApplication(processName, appInfo, providers, app.instrumentationClass,
                    profilerInfo, app.instrumentationArguments, app.instrumentationWatcher,
                    app.instrumentationUiAutomationConnection, testMode, enableOpenGlTrace,
                    enableTrackAllocation, isRestrictedBackupMode || !normalMode, app.persistent,
                    new Configuration(mConfiguration), app.compat,
                    getCommonServicesLocked(app.isolated),
                    mCoreSettingsObserver.getCoreSettingsLocked());
            updateLruProcessLocked(app, false, null);
            app.lastRequestedGc = app.lastLowMemory = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // todo: Yikes!  What should we do?  For now we will try to
            // start another process, but that could easily get us in
            // an infinite loop of restarting processes...
            Slog.wtf(TAG, "Exception thrown during bind of " + app, e);

            app.resetPackageList(mProcessStats);
            app.unlinkDeathRecipient();
            startProcessLocked(app, "bind fail", processName);
            return false;
        }

        // See if the top visible activity is waiting to run in this process...
        if (normalMode) {
            try {
                if (mStackSupervisor.attachApplicationLocked(app)) {
                    didSomething = true;
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                Slog.wtf(TAG, "Exception thrown launching activities in " + app, e);
                badApp = true;
            }
        }
    // ……
    }

thread对象其实是ActivityThread里ApplicationThread对象在ActivityManagerService的代理对象，故此执行thread.bindApplication，最终会调用ApplicationThread的bindApplication方法。该bindApplication方法的实质是通过向ActivityThread的消息队列发送BIND_APPLICATION消息，消息的处理调用handleBindApplication方法，handleBindApplication方法比较重要的是会调用如下方法：

mInstrumentation.callApplicationOnCreate(app);

callApplicationOnCreate即调用应用程序Application的onCreate()方法，说明Application的onCreate()方法会比所有activity的onCreate()方法先调用。

mStackSupervisor为ActivityManagerService的成员变量，类型为ActivityStackSupervisor。

/** Run all ActivityStacks through this */
ActivityStackSupervisor mStackSupervisor;

从注释可以看出，mStackSupervisor为Activity堆栈管理辅助类实例。ActivityStackSupervisor的attachApplicationLocked()方法的调用了realStartActivityLocked()方法，在realStartActivityLocked()方法中，会调用scheduleLaunchActivity()方法：

final boolean realStartActivityLocked(ActivityRecord r,
        ProcessRecord app, boolean andResume, boolean checkConfig)
        throws RemoteException {

    //...
    try {
        //...
        app.thread.scheduleLaunchActivity(new Intent(r.intent), r.appToken,
                System.identityHashCode(r), r.info,
                new Configuration(mService.mConfiguration),
                r.compat, r.icicle, results, newIntents, !andResume,
                mService.isNextTransitionForward(), profileFile, profileFd,
                profileAutoStop);

        //...

    } catch (RemoteException e) {
        //...
    }
    //...
    return true;
}

app.thread也是ApplicationThread对象在ActivityManagerService的一个代理对象，最终会调用ApplicationThread的scheduleLaunchActivity方法。

// we use token to identify this activity without having to send the
// activity itself back to the activity manager. (matters more with ipc)
@Override
public final void scheduleLaunchActivity(Intent intent, IBinder token, int ident,
    ActivityInfo info, Configuration curConfig, Configuration overrideConfig,
    CompatibilityInfo compatInfo, String referrer, IVoiceInteractor voiceInteractor,
    int procState, Bundle state, PersistableBundle persistentState,
    List<ResultInfo> pendingResults, List<ReferrerIntent> pendingNewIntents,
    boolean notResumed, boolean isForward, ProfilerInfo profilerInfo) {

        updateProcessState(procState, false);

        ActivityClientRecord r = new ActivityClientRecord();

        ……
        sendMessage(H.LAUNCH_ACTIVITY, r);
}

同bindApplication()方法，最终是通过向ActivityThread的消息队列发送消息，在ActivityThread完成实际的LAUNCH_ACTIVITY的操作。

public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
    if (DEBUG_MESSAGES) Slog.v(TAG, ">>> handling: " + codeToString(msg.what));
    switch (msg.what) {
        case LAUNCH_ACTIVITY: {
            Trace.traceBegin(Trace.TRACE_TAG_ACTIVITY_MANAGER, "activityStart");
            final ActivityClientRecord r = (ActivityClientRecord) msg.obj;

            r.packageInfo = getPackageInfoNoCheck(
                r.activityInfo.applicationInfo, r.compatInfo);
            handleLaunchActivity(r, null);
            Trace.traceEnd(Trace.TRACE_TAG_ACTIVITY_MANAGER);
            } break;
    ……
}

handleLaunchActivity()用于启动Activity。具体的启动流程不在这里详述了，这里重点说明ApplicationThread及ActivityThread的线程通信机制。

2.2 主线程消息处理

在《Android线程管理——线程通信》中谈到了普通线程中Handler、MessageQueue、Message及Looper四者的关系，那么，ActivityThread中的线程通信又有什么不同呢？不同之处主要表现为两点：1）Looper的初始化方式；2）Handler生成。

首先，ActivityThread通过Looper.prepareMainLooper()初始化Looper，为了直观比较ActivityThread与普通线程初始化Looper的区别，把两种初始化方法放在一起：

/** Initialize the current thread as a looper.
      * This gives you a chance to create handlers that then reference
      * this looper, before actually starting the loop. Be sure to call
      * {@link #loop()} after calling this method, and end it by calling
      * {@link #quit()}.
      */
    public static void prepare() {
        prepare(true);
    }

    private static void prepare(boolean quitAllowed) {
        if (sThreadLocal.get() != null) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Only one Looper may be created per thread");
        }
        sThreadLocal.set(new Looper(quitAllowed));
    }

    /**
     * Initialize the current thread as a looper, marking it as an
     * application's main looper. The main looper for your application
     * is created by the Android environment, so you should never need
     * to call this function yourself.  See also: {@link #prepare()}
     */
    public static void prepareMainLooper() {
        prepare(false);
        synchronized (Looper.class) {
            if (sMainLooper != null) {
                throw new IllegalStateException("The main Looper has already been prepared.");
            }
            sMainLooper = myLooper();
        }
    }

• 普通线程的prepare()方法默认quitAllowed参数为true，表示允许退出，ActivityThread在prepareMainLooper()方法中调用prepare()方法，参数为false，表示主线程不允许退出。

• 普通线程只调用prepare()方法，ActivityThread在调用完prepare()方法之后，会通过myLooper()方法将本地线程<ThreadLocal>的Looper对象的引用交给sMainLooper。myLooper()其实就是调用sThreadLocal的get()方法实现的。

/**
     * Return the Looper object associated with the current thread.  Returns
     * null if the calling thread is not associated with a Looper.
     */
    public static Looper myLooper() {
        return sThreadLocal.get();
    }

• 之所以要通过sMainLooper指向ActivityThread的Looper对象，就是希望通过getMainLooper()方法将主线程的Looper对象开放给其他线程。

/** Returns the application's main looper, which lives in the main thread of the application.
     */
    public static Looper getMainLooper() {
        synchronized (Looper.class) {
            return sMainLooper;
        }
    }

其次，ActivityThread与普通线程的Handler生成方式也不一样。普通线程生成一个与Looper绑定的Handler即可，ActivityThread通过sMainThreadHandler指向getHandler()的返回值，而getHandler()方法返回的其实是一个继承Handler的H对象。。

private class H extends Handler {
    ……
}

final H mH = new H();

final Handler getHandler() {
    return mH;
}

真正实现消息机制“通”信的其实是Looper的loop()方法，loop()方法的核心实现如下：

/**
     * Run the message queue in this thread. Be sure to call
     * {@link #quit()} to end the loop.
     */
    public static void loop() {
        final Looper me = myLooper();
        if (me == null) {
            throw new RuntimeException("No Looper; Looper.prepare() wasn't called on this thread.");
        }
        final MessageQueue queue = me.mQueue;

        // Make sure the identity of this thread is that of the local process,
        // and keep track of what that identity token actually is.
        Binder.clearCallingIdentity();
        final long ident = Binder.clearCallingIdentity();

        for (;;) {
            Message msg = queue.next(); // might block
            if (msg == null) {
                // No message indicates that the message queue is quitting.
                return;
            }

            // This must be in a local variable, in case a UI event sets the logger
            Printer logging = me.mLogging;
            if (logging != null) {
                logging.println(">>>>> Dispatching to " + msg.target + " " +
                        msg.callback + ": " + msg.what);
            }

            msg.target.dispatchMessage(msg);

            if (logging != null) {
                logging.println("<<<<< Finished to " + msg.target + " " + msg.callback);
            }

            // Make sure that during the course of dispatching the
            // identity of the thread wasn't corrupted.
            final long newIdent = Binder.clearCallingIdentity();
            if (ident != newIdent) {
                Log.wtf(TAG, "Thread identity changed from 0x"
                        + Long.toHexString(ident) + " to 0x"
                        + Long.toHexString(newIdent) + " while dispatching to "
                        + msg.target.getClass().getName() + " "
                        + msg.callback + " what=" + msg.what);
            }

            msg.recycle();
        }
    }

大致流程如下：

• 首先通过上述myLooper()方法获取Looper对象，取出Looper持有的MessageQueue；

• 然后从MessageQueue取出Message，如果Message为null，说明线程正在退出；
• Message不为空，则调用Message的target handler对该Message进行分发，具体分发、处理流程可参考《Android线程管理——线程通信》；
• 消息处理完毕，调用recycle()方法进行回收。