How to start a background thread in Android
<p>This might be a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway.</p>

<p>How do you start a background thread off the UI thread without using AsyncTask or Handler or Service or any other Android-provided structure? I want to create a <code>new Thread</code> to do some Bitmap processing, and given the bugs that were reported against AsyncTask, I'd like to avoid those classes. I know they are the Google-recommended way to background a task, but let's pretend I <em>can't</em> use them...just for fun. :)</p>

<p>If it's not possible, I'd like to know why. If it is, how do I do this?</p>
