On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Ben <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> ->If I try to set the timeout of the Socket -> null Pointer Exception
Your socket is null at this point, hence the NPE. Move this code
somewhere after new Socket(...);
> ->If I try to connect to an existing address, I get the message
> "tv.append("after socket");" but just a second after that I get "08-13
> 20:44:05.657: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(304): Caused by:
> android.view.ViewRoot$CalledFromWrongThreadException: Only the original
> thread that created a view hierarchy can touch its views."
You are trying to append text to a TextVie from within doInBackground()
which executes in a separate thread. Don't do this, modify the UI only
in pre/postExecute().
> ->If I try to connect to an address that is not existing(which is exactly
> the situation I want to simulate) I wont get any exception like "unknown
> host" or anything it just hangs and hangs and hangs withour any error or
> something till it kills my router with its trying(DDos anyone?) :D
>
What address are you trying with? If it's a hostname it might be waiting
for a DNS response. You probably need to change your router if it is
that easy to kill :)
> The whole thing worked just fine in native java and I would greatly
> appreciate any help!!!!!
>
Read up on the basics of Android a bit, apps are written in Java, but a
lot of things are quite different compared to desktop/server side Java.
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