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Can’t create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare() inside AsyncTask for ProgressDialog

I’m developing an Android service that try to obtain the device IP address every x time and comunicate it to a server.
I’m using:

Netbeans 7.2
Android SDK
Android Google-Api 8
SQLite

I know there are a few questions related to this same issue, but none of them gave me a solution to my problem. As you can see in my code below, I’m not trying to access to the UI of the service main thread (well, I tried, but after I commented the line, the error remains the same). On the other hand, I’m using AsyncTask, which I think is the appropriate way to do it.

This is the main part of my service:

public class ArsosService extends Service {

    private NotificationManager mNM;
        private final Messenger mMessenger = new Messenger(new IncomingHandler());
        protected DatabaseUtil dbu = null;
        @Override
        public void onCreate() {
            mNM = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
            try {
                dbu = DatabaseUtility.getInstance(this);
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                Log.e("Service", ex);
            }
            Timer timer = new Timer();
            timer.schedule(new Checks(), 0, 15000);
        }

        private class Checks extends TimerTask {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                CheckIpAddress_Task checkIp = new CheckIpAddress_Task();         
                checkIp.execute();
            }
        }

        // Other methods

        private class CheckIpAddress_Task extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Integer> {
        @Override
        protected Integer doInBackground(Void... arg0) {
            String ipLocal = getLocalIpAddress();
            String text = null;

            // ipLocal==null means there is no available connection, so we do nothing. 
            if (ipLocal != null) {
                String ipDb = dbu.getLastIP(); // we get the IP saved in the DB.
                if (ipDb == null) {
                    dbu.addProperty("IP", ipLocal); // we save the IP in the DB.
                } else if (!ipLocal.equals(ipDb)) {
                    dbu.setProperty("IP", ipLocal); // we update the IP in the DB.
                }
            }
            if (text != null) {
                //showNotification(1, text, ipLocal);
            }
            return 0;
        }

        private String getLocalIpAddress() {
            String result = null;
            // Irrelevant code
            return result;
        }
    }
}

I think the problem may be related to the threads, but I can’t see where. Any help will be appreciated.

EDITED: Although I have accepted one of the answers as correct, or maybe because of it, I’ve been searching for some more information regard to it. I’ve run into this page I want to share with all of you who someday need to know more about this issue. Its author,Tejas Lagvankar, explains everything about threads, loopers and handler in a very clear and understandable way.

Answer 1

Try this…

– First declare the Handler Object reference variable at class scope.

Handler h;

– Inside the onCreate() method create the instance of the Handler.

h = new Handler();

– Use it with thread like below:

new Thread(new Runnable(){

 public void run(){

    h.post(new Runnable(){


      // Do the UI work here.

   });

 }


});

– You can very well use the AsyncTask, provided in android, its known as P*ainless threading.*