Error while dispaying an Toast message: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()

Question

I am getting an Runtime Exception:Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare() while displaying the Toast message in a worker thread.

I have a service (runs in a remote process) which creates an object. This object is responsible for connecting to a server in a thread. I get the response from the sever. I want to display the message from the server in the toast. At that time I getting this exception. I tried posting it in a Handler by using handler.post. But still i am getting the exception.

What should be the approach to avoid this.

Answer 1

Define a Handler like this:

 private final Handler handler = new Handler() {
        public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
              if(msg.arg1 == 1)
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Your message", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
    }

Then put the following code where you need to show your toast message.

Message msg = handler.obtainMessage();
msg.arg1 = 1;
handler.sendMessage(msg);