Question

i am trying to use Alert Dialog Box and Async Task in the activity and am getting the following error

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Can’t create handler inside
thread that has not called Looper.prepare()

Code:

public class loginTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
    public ProgressDialog loginDialog = new ProgressDialog(
            LoginActivity.this);

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        loginDialog.setMessage("Please wait Logging in");
        loginDialog.show();
    }

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {

        if(loginUser()) {
            loginDialog.dismiss();
            alertbox("title", "winnn", "Okay");
        } else {
            loginDialog.dismiss();
            alertbox("title", "message", "Okay");
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void unused) {
        loginDialog.dismiss();
        Intent intentHome = new Intent(LoginActivity.this,
                HomeActivity.class);
        startActivity(intentHome);
    }
}

Answer 1

You can’t update UI inside the doInBackground() method directly. (Yes if you still want to execute then write the same inside the runOnUiThread() method inside the doInBackground())

Otherwise, do it inside the onPostExecute() method.

public class loginTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> 
{
    public ProgressDialog loginDialog = new ProgressDialog( LoginActivity.this );
    public Boolean flag;

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        loginDialog.setMessage("Please wait Logging in");
        loginDialog.show();
    }

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
        if(loginUser())
          flag = true;
        else 
          flag=false;

        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void unused) {
        loginDialog.dismiss();

        if(flag)
          alertbox("title", "winnn", "Okay");
        else
          alertbox("title", "message", "Okay");
    }
}