Question

I’m trying to add a bookmark from my application using Browser.saveBookmark

  protected void saveBookmark(String title, String url){
    Browser.saveBookmark(this, title, url);
  }

The window where the user can modify my title and press “Save bookmark” displays correctly, but when I press save, the browser closes unexpectedly

12-28 18:07:20.864: E/AndroidRuntime(560): java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()
12-28 18:07:20.864: E/AndroidRuntime(560):  at android.os.Handler.<init>(Handler.java:121)
12-28 18:07:20.864: E/AndroidRuntime(560):  at android.webkit.WebIconDatabase$EventHandler.<init>(WebIconDatabase.java:46)
12-28 18:07:20.864: E/AndroidRuntime(560):  at android.webkit.WebIconDatabase$EventHandler.<init>(WebIconDatabase.java:46)
12-28 18:07:20.864: E/AndroidRuntime(560):  at android.webkit.WebIconDatabase.<init>(WebIconDatabase.java:43)
12-28 18:07:20.864: E/AndroidRuntime(560):  at android.webkit.WebIconDatabase.getInstance(WebIconDatabase.java:293)
12-28 18:07:20.864: E/AndroidRuntime(560):  at com.android.browser.Bookmarks.addBookmark(Bookmarks.java:136)
12-28 18:07:20.864: E/AndroidRuntime(560):  at com.android.browser.AddBookmarkPage$SaveBookmarkRunnable.run(AddBookmarkPage.java:136)
12-28 18:07:20.864: E/AndroidRuntime(560):  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1096)

I’m calling this action from the UI thread, so I don’t know what’s happening.

I’ve tried using the WRITE_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS permission

<uses-permission android:name="com.android.browser.permission.WRITE_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS" />

but nothing changes.

I’ve tested this on an emulator and a Galaxy S.

Answer 1

Looks like this might be a bug in earlier versions of Android

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11291