Android :: Passing Data From Bg To UI Thread Using Handler?

Oct 13, 2010

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:.............

Android :: Passing data from bg to UI thread using Handler?


Android :: Passing A Service Handler

Aug 9, 2009

I've read the android AIDL documentation and have a general idea of how RPC works between an Activity and a Service. However, for my application it seems overboard to implement such features: basically, I want to pass a Service a nice handler so its thread can pass data to my Activity. Currently I'm getting around this by using a static public member (a hack) but I would prefer just passing a Handler object in the Service's starting Intent. However since a Handler isn't serialize-able , I haven't found a way to pass it to the service without a simple static member hack. Any insight? Or, am I just going to have to suck it up and do a formal RPC to the service?

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Android :: Way To Know Another Thread's Handler Not Null Before Calling It?

Feb 2, 2010

My program threw a NullPointerException the other day when it tried to use a Handler created on another thread to send that thread a message. The Handler created by the other thread was not yet created, or not yet visible to the calling thread, despite the calling thread having already called start on the other thread. This only happens very rarely. Almost every test run does not get the exception. I was wondering what the best way is to avoid this problem for sure with minimal complication and performance penalty. The program is a game and very performance sensitive, especially once it is running. Therefore I try to avoid using synchronization after setup, for example, and would prefer to avoid spinning on a variable at any time.

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Android :: Java Thread Message Passing

Jun 16, 2010

I'm writing an Android app. I have a main method, which creates and runs a new Thread using an anonymous inner Runnable class. The run() method, when it's done, calls a method on it's parent class (in the main thread) that calls notifyDataSetChanged() so that the main thread can redraw the new data. This is causing all kinds of trouble (ViewRoot$CalledFromWrongThreadException). The thing is, this method being called from the worker thread is on the class that's created in the UI thread. Shouldn't that be running on the UI thread? Or am I missing something.

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Android :: Update UI In Main Activity Through Handler In Thread

May 9, 2010

I try to make several connection in a class and update the multiple progressbar in the main screen. But I've got the following error trying to use thread in android : Code: 05-06 13:13:11.092: ERROR/ConnectionManager(22854): ERROR:Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare() Here is a small part of my code in the main Activity.

public class Act_Main extends ListActivity
{ private ConnectionManager cm;
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{ super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// Set up the window layout
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, R.layout.custom_title); }
public void startConnection() { ......

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Android :: Passing Array By Calling Activity From A Thread

Jul 23, 2010

I have two activities:

"a" that spawns thread for generating a dynamic array of values inside public void run() function.
"b", graphics activity that will help me draw rectangular pulses based on array values calculated in activity "a" (calculated in a's thread to be precise).

When I am in thread inside "a", how do I pass values of array to activity "b" and
call activity as well.

activity A

CODE:..........

activity B

CODE:..............

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Android :: Handler Fails To Deliver Message / Run Able To Main Thread

Feb 18, 2010

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);
boolean res = m_handler.post(m_runnable);
if(res)
Log.d(TAG, "Posted Runnable"); } ............

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Android :: What Difference When A Class Extend From Handler And Thread? - In Framework

Mar 18, 2010

What is the difference when a class extend from Handler and Thread?

As described in developer.android.com
...
Each Handler instance is associated with a single thread and that thread's message queue.
...

Does the thread has no message queue ?

Any benefit for a class extend from Handler?

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Android :: Async Task And Passing Message Back To UI Thread

Mar 5, 2010

I have a simple app and I'm using the AsyncTask to test out a background process, for clearness purposes I've opted to put my AsyncTask in a separate class rather than in an inner class, which where my problems begin, this is my AsyncTask. Code...

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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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Android :: Calling Looper More Than Once Causes - Sending Message To A Handler On A Dead Thread

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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Android :: Android - Can't Handler Inside Thread Not Called Looper Prepare

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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Android :: Passing Data With Pending Intent

Jun 28, 2010

I would like to create some home screen app widgets that are entry points into an application. I can put a button in the app widget that uses setOnClickPendingIntent to start the activity. The problem occurs when I want to have two of these app widgets that are entry points to different parts of the activity. I need to be able to pass data into the activity that will distinguish these. Since both app widgets use a Pending Intent that starts the same activity, the two Pending Intents are shared and I can't reliably set extras for the corresponding intents.

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Android :: Data Passing And Database Access

Sep 23, 2009

I am experiencing a problem where when the android device wake up from sleep, the Activity would take forever to get redrawn(and have to terminate it most of the time). I am not sure why, but when I comment out the code below where it retrieves an object from the database based on id stored in the bundle, the problem goes away.

Not sure why the db transaction is causing an issue.

secondly, is it better to store the object in bundle instead of storing its id and retrieving it from db in onCreate?

CODE:...............

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Android :: Passing Data Between Service And Activity

Sep 19, 2010

So I'm getting really confused on how to do this whole thing and I was hoping someone could break it down for me a little bit.I have a service that should always be running, and at certain times it needs to alert the user that a task is to be completed(probably through a notification bar icon). When the user accepts the task, the service needs to look into the local database, construct some non primitive objects, and give them to the activity that it just started.I have looked all over and gotten very confused as to a proper approach so I have a few questions to help me wrap my head around it.If an activity creates a local SQLite database can the service and activities of that application access that same database later?Does the service and activity need to be in the same or separate packages? I would think no but for some reason I remember seeing something about this elsewhere.

How would I do the data transmission from the service to the activity? I was thinking a content provider but it seems like there should be an easier way for the service to just hand off the data. Similar to an Intent but for non primitives.

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Android :: Synchronization Handler - Initial Data To Setup Display Page

Jan 11, 2010

I'd like to start an activity with some initial data (passed through Extras) that sets up a display page, while I simultaneously make a network call to get the rest of the data. I thought I'd pass this new data to the activity as a message to the activity's handler. Now, my question is: how can I make sure that the activity has finished drawing the page and is ready to show the message data? The data might come from the cache, so I'm worried the message may land in the handler before the page is ready to display it. Is there a way to synchronize the page draw and the message handling? E.g., is it possible to suspend the looper till the page is ready? What's the preferred way of doing what I'm trying to do?

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Android :: Switching Activities / Passing Data Between Activities

Jun 30, 2010

how to call BarCodeScanner, and return the value to a field.so now, i have a toast that says "successful scan" and then i want to pass the result to a new activity. when i comment out my intent, everything works (minus the passing of data/switching of screen, obviously) but when i run my project as is, it FC's no errors reported by eclipse in code or xml. any insights?

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Android :: Collect Data On Closed Thread?

May 2, 2009

bellow just a test sample source for a background thread. i would like that when my app is closed it still run in the background (like at my tracks) to collect data even when it is closed. but it always dies after a while by itself, why?...........

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Android :: Pass Data From Thread Into Activity

Jun 12, 2010

I am want to pass data back from a Thread to Activity (which created the thread). So I am doing like described on Android documentation.Only one thing I am missing here - where and how should be defined mResults so I could access it from both Activity and Thread, and also would be able to modify as needed? If I define it as final in MyActivity, I can't change it anymore in Thread - as it is shown in example.

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Android :: Protect Shared Data Between Service And Thread

Jun 23, 2010

I'm doing an application that requires that certain thread access data that's shared among it and another service.How can I protect these shared data form accessing in the same time is there anything in android for that or android has nothing to do with this as Java API's will do the job.

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Android :: How To Send Back Data From Thread To Service?

Aug 31, 2010

I have a service from which a start a new thread. This new thread will communicate with a TCP server using socket. What is the best way to send the data received from TCP server back to the service? Handlers or something else?

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Android :: Update Listview After Thread Loaded Data From The Net

Mar 16, 2009

I like that my GUI appears immediatly when the User starts the APP. Than some Data (text, Pictures) come loaded in the Background (like Youtube APP) The Listview and Gallery comes updated automaticly with this new Data.

I initiate my Listview, start a Thread and load the Data....and than the Listview does not come updated!!
Several People write I should use notifyDataSetChanged(). But I can not place this Command in my Thread (just unknown).

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Android :: Trying To Start A Thread Dedicated To Sending And Receiving Data

Apr 8, 2010

I have a main class activity that does the task of sending control to other activities on click of a button. I am also starting a thread in the main class. This thread basically sets up a connection with the server and is active throughout the lifetime of the application.I have two functions in the thread class, send and receive data from server.Therefore, when the other activities need to send/receive data from server, they use those particular functions.First of all please let me know if what I am trying to do is fine as per the architecture of the operating system. If its fine, when I try to run the code, the app crashes and i see a NullPointerException and a RuntimeException in the DDMS log.Could some one please help me out in this or suggest a better way to implement the concept.Also, please be assured that, the other functionality of the code works perfectly fine.

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Android :: Why Webview Caputured Data Get Lost While Save In A Thread

Apr 13, 2010

webview caputured data get lost while save in a thread.

CODE:...............

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Android : Java - Implement A Run Method Of Thread If Create A Thread Global

Sep 7, 2010

How can I implement a run() method of thread if I create a Thread Global?

I mean If I create a Thread Globally then can I implement its run() method {" public void run()"} anywhere in my Application?

In the run() method I have to write the code to perform some action.

IF I can do it then please can anyone show me briefly how to do it particularly.

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Android : Handle Messages Between The Main Thread(the Deafult UI Related Thread) And The User Created Gamethread

May 21, 2009

I am writing an application in which i need to handle messages between the main thread(the deafult UI related thread) and the user created Gamethread.

The requirement is like this.

An activity(say "Activity_X") is setting the view by "setContentView(some "View_Y")". In "Activity_X" i have implemeted "onCreateOptionsMenu()" and "onOptionsItemSelected()" fucntions for creating menus & a switch case for action to be taken on selecting those menus.Menu has items like "resume/pause/zoom/" .

All action to be take on selecting these menus are implemented in "View_Y" in a separate Gamethread by extending "Thread" class.

So whenever a menu is selected in "Activity_X" i need to send a message to "View_Y". And on receiving this ,a particular action/method should be called in View_Y(GameThread).

How can i achieve this using Handlers?Is there any other way of doing this? Please do share with me some code snippets for these.

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Android :: Update ListView In Main Thread From Another Thread

May 27, 2010

I have a separate thread running to get data from the internet. After that, I would like to update the ListView in the main thread by calling adapter.notifyDataSetChanged(). But it does not work. Any workaround for that?

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Android :: Use Thread With SurfaceView - Ie Draw In Separate Thread?

Jul 22, 2009

I want to do the drawing in another thread to speed up the game(it is way to slow right now). I was told to do this but don't quite understand why that would speed things up. Is it GameView that should implement Runnable? Should I make the thread sleep when not drawing? where should I start the thread? package com.android.WWS;

import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Context; import android.graphics.*; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.SurfaceView; import android.view.KeyEvent; import android.view.View; import android.view.View.OnKeyListener; import java.lang.Runnable; import java.lang.Thread;...................

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Android :: Suspend / Resume Thread From Another Thread In Same App

Feb 20, 2009

I need to suspend/resume a thread from another thread in the same process. I tried to look into thread apis,but I couldn't figured out a way to achieve this.Can anyone pls point me some references to look or give a tip to do this.

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Dec 28, 2009

Does anyone know how to delete certain texts from a thread in an easy manner instead of having to delete a whole thread??

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