I am spinning a thread to go online and get data. But if phone is in a
network hole (no signal) it throws an exception.
In the exception I try to call Toast or finish() the activity but both
those cause a crash.
Here's the error and my code:
error is:
06-14 11:32:01.691: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7389):
java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't create handler inside thread that
has not called Looper.prepare()
here is the code, note the catch clause at the end which is where my
problem lies:
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private Thread checkUpdate = new Thread() {
public void run() {
try {
URL updateURL = new URL("http://search.twitter.com/
search.json?q="+string_from_speaker);
URLConnection conn = updateURL.openConnection();
...
} catch (Exception e) {
// none of these exception handlers work becaue they are in wrong
thread!! WTF?
// NOPE tv1.setText(" having trouble getting online"); // TODO
// NOPE Toast.makeText(IconicAgain.this, "having trouble getting
online "+ e, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}
};
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Can I at least stop this thread somehow? Or close the activity
somehow?
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