plexamp-lite/src/com/minamp/net/Threads.java

package com.minamp.net;

import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.ThreadFactory;

/**
 * Background threads with big stacks. Android 2.x gives new threads ~16 KB of stack, and the
 * bundled TLS handshake + certificate parsing needs far more; overflowing it kills the app.
 * 256 KB is the most Dalvik allows.
 */
public final class Threads {
    public static final long STACK = 256 * 1024;

    private Threads() {}

    public static Thread create(Runnable r, String name) {
        Thread t = new Thread(null, r, name, STACK);
        t.setDaemon(true);
        return t;
    }

    public static void start(Runnable r, String name) {
        create(r, name).start();
    }

    public static ExecutorService pool(final String name, int n) {
        ThreadFactory f = new ThreadFactory() {
            private int count;
            public synchronized Thread newThread(Runnable r) { return create(r, name + "-" + (++count)); }
        };
        return n == 1 ? Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor(f) : Executors.newFixedThreadPool(n, f);
    }

    /** Readable one-liner for any failure, including Errors such as StackOverflowError. */
    public static String describe(Throwable t) {
        String m = t.getMessage();
        String cls = t.getClass().getSimpleName();
        if (m == null || m.length() == 0) return cls;
        if (t instanceof java.io.IOException) return m;
        return cls + ": " + m;
    }
}