Question

I’ve developed an Android 2.2 application and I get only one time this error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: View not attached to window manager

This error occur when I dismiss ProgressDialog. This dialog is on an AsyncTask. Here is my code:

private class LoadGatesAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Boolean>
{
    private Context mContext;
    private ArrayList<Gate> mGatesList;
    private ProgressDialog mLoadingDialog;

    public LoadGatesAsyncTask(Context context)
    {
        this.mContext = context;
        mLoadingDialog = new ProgressDialog(mContext);
        mLoadingDialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER);
        mLoadingDialog.setMessage(getString(R.string.msg_loading_gates));
        mLoadingDialog.setCancelable(false);
        mLoadingDialog.show();
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    @Override
    protected Boolean doInBackground(Void... params)
    {
        Boolean result = false;

        try
        {
            [ ... ]
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
        return result;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Boolean result)
    {
        super.onPostExecute(result);

        if (result)
        {
            [ ... ]

            mLoadingDialog.dismiss();
        }
        else
        {
            mLoadingDialog.dismiss();
            Toast toast = Toast.makeText(mContext,
                    getString(R.string.msg_error_loading_gates),
                    Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
            toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 
                    toast.getXOffset() / 2,
                    toast.getYOffset() / 2);

            toast.show();
        }
    }

}

How can avoid this error programmatically? Is there any check that I could do to avoid dismiss it if it isn’t attached to window manager?

Answer 1

are you instantiating LoadGatesAsyncTask in OnCreate?

If so move the loadingDialog instantiation to OnPreExecute rather than in the Constructor.