Android :: Can't Create Handler Inside Thread That Has Not Called Looper.prepare
Oct 6, 2010
What does the following exception mean? And how can I fix it?
This is the code:Toast toast = Toast.makeText(mContext, 'Somthing', Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
This is the exception:
D/VVM ( 684): java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()
D/VVM ( 684): at android.os.Handler.(Handler.java:121)
D/VVM ( 684): at android.widget.Toast.(Toast.java:68)
D/VVM ( 684): at android.widget.Toast.makeText(Toast.java:231)
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Sep 30, 2010
I am getting reports of 'Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()' once I added ScoreNinja to my Android app, and released it to the market. It seems that it isn't happening all the time as the ScoreNinja highscore has lots of entries from users. I have looked on the web for help but there are no clear directions on what to do. I have used the ScoreNinja code exactly as shown on the scoreninja website. BTW If anyone is having problems with ScoreNinja only displaying one score, check to see if the launchmode is not set to 'singleinstance' in your manifest. This fixed it for me!
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Sep 4, 2010
I am using an Executor [fixed thread pool] with my own ThreadFactory that adds a Looper:
CODE:...............
I am running a thread that makes network requests but if the network fails I would like a dialog message to be displayed to the user. This process is rather involving since it requires making AND displaying the request in the UI thread. I can wait for the user's response to the dialog by simply adding a Loop to the network thread and wait for a message to be send from the UI thread. This allows me to encapsulate the network requests in a while(tryAgain) thread. All works well except when the Looper.loop() method is called the second time (after a second network error dialog is displayed) and a message is sent by the dialog (in the UI thread) to the network thread's handler:
CODE:.............
In the AlertDialog instance is an OnClickListener:
CODE:...............
I've checked that the thread is still active with handler.getLooper().getThread().isAlive() which always returns true but it still gives me "sending message to a Handler on a dead thread". How is it that the Message/Handler has decided that the thread is dead? Shouldn't it rely on the .isAlive() method? In the end I am trying to avoid replicating the thread management build into the Android OS .
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I'm trying to initialize OpenFeint in my game like this:
CODE:...........
Result: 1. OpenFeint initialization sometimes take so song(network actions?). It blocks the main thread. 2. My application remains in onCreate() for too long. 3. My Dev Phone One display ANR(application not responding) dialog prompting me to choose between 'Force Close' and 'Wait' 4. Soon after that, OpenFeint has done its things and my game shows up behind the dialog. 5. Now pressing 'Wait' will dismiss the ANR dialog and I can continue my game properly.
But obviously we don't want ANR dialog. So now I put it in a Thread like this:
CODE:...............
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Result: Problem solved. Everything seems to run fine now.
I put Looper.prepare() there because my game will crash if I don't. The log message told me to put it there. I put Looper.loop(); there because OpenFeint will not initialize at all if I don't. I've read the doc about Looper but honestly I don't understand what the doc says.
Question 1. The doc also tell me this: ------------------------------------------------- public static final void loop ()
Since: API Level 1 Run the message queue in this thread. Be sure to call quit() to end the loop. -------------------------------------------------- Can anyone explain when & where should I call quit()?
Question 2 What will happen if I don't call Looper.quit()?
Question 3 Let me ask this straight. Am I taking the correct approach? Is there some kind of loop running alongside my game all the time if I do this?
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I'd like to know if Looper can enable handler to handle one message at a time, instead of handling all the messages in the queue together in one blocking call when Looper.loop() is called.
Because the looper sends all the messages in the queue to the handler one after the other in one blocking call, my application displays the ANR message. Instead, I want to be able to handle one single message, one blocking call at a time - the instant it falls into the queue.
The following code illustrates my problem: (pls note the lines referred: 1,2,3,4&5) Question 1: After calling looper.loop in line3, line4 and 5 don't run. Why is this? I tried quit(), but it doesn't help. Question 2: Instead of displaying 0,1,2,3,4 in one blocking call (at line3), I'd like to have 5 different blocking calls for each. Essentially (sorry, if i sound repetitive), I want to be able to use looper in such a way that each time, it ensures only one message gets handled.
Is there a way to do this?
CODE:..................
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I ran into some trouble trying to use a Looper inside an AsyncTask (its doInBackground method). Everything works fine until new Tasks are being created by AsyncTask.sThreadFactory, but once I reach the AsyncTask.CORE_POOL_SIZE limit and AsyncTask begins to recycle the threads, sending messages to my looper (created inside doInBackground) results in a MessageQueue RuntimeException: "sending message to a Handler on a dead thread".
The code I tried was:
CODE:....................
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I need a message queue in my background thread, so I created a looper thread.
CODE:...................
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Trying to get my head around the specific ins/outs of the Looper object and how it interacts with Threads. Documentation is rather scant on this topic. This is one of those topics that is obvious to the Android core team, but to the rest of us, it's not so obvious.
Can someone point to better documentation or give a more complete account of Looper:
1. What is looper.
2. How does the Android phone use Looper to coordinate message handling?
3. What do I need to do when I get the "Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()" message?
4. How do I use LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates with Looper, and why does this call require a Looper object?
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In Handler, we can pass some data from a background thread to the UI thread like this:
private void someBackgroundThreadOperation() {
final String data = "hello";
handler.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
Log.d(TAG, "Message from bg thread: " + data);
}
}
}
If we use the above, we cannot then use Handler.removeCallbacks(Runnable r), because we won't have references to any of the anonymous runnables we created above. We could create a single Runnable instance, and post that to the handler, but it won't allow us to pass any data through:.............
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public void startConnection() { ......
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I have an app with a two threads - main and data loader. When data loader finishes it posts a Runnable object to the main thread (as described in the DevGuide), but it never gets delivered and run. Here's the basic code:
class MyApp extends Application{
public void onCreate()
{LoaderThread t = new LoaderThread();
t.start(); }
private class LoaderThread extends Thread {
public void run()
{ SystemClock.sleep(2000);
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if(res)
Log.d(TAG, "Posted Runnable"); } ............
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What is the difference when a class extend from Handler and Thread?
As described in developer.android.com
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Each Handler instance is associated with a single thread and that thread's message queue.
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Does the thread has no message queue ?
Any benefit for a class extend from Handler?
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CODE:............
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