How can you tell if a process is single threaded?

How do you know if a process is multithreaded?

A process with one thread is single-threaded, and a process with more than one thread is multithreaded. All processes start out single-threaded.

What does it mean to be single threaded?

the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption.

Is a process single threaded by default?

When an application component starts and the application does not have any other components running, the Android system starts a new Linux process for the application with a single thread of execution. By default, all components of the same application run in the same process and thread (called the "main" thread).

What are examples of single threaded applications?

LAME, the open source audio encoder, is a good example of a single-threaded application. It will never use more than one thread (so when I'm encoding MP3 files, I just run four or more copies at the same time, each encoding a list of audio files).