Sending message to a Handler on a dead thread when getting a location from an IntentService

Question

My app needs location fixes on regular basis, even when the phone is not awake. To do this, I am using IntentService with the pattern generously provided by Commonsware. htt

Answer 1

For others like me: I had a similar problem related to AsyncTask. As I understand, that class assumes that it is initialized on the UI (main) thread.

A workaround (one of several possible) is to place the following in MyApplication class:

@Override
public void onCreate() {
    // workaround for http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20915
    try {
        Class.forName("android.os.AsyncTask");
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {}
    super.onCreate();
}

(do not forget to mention it in AndroidManifest.xml:

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