“Calling this from your main thread can lead to deadlock and/or ANRs while getting accesToken” from GoogleAuthUtil(Google Plus integration in Android)

Question

In my android application, I am trying to get AccessToken from GoogleAuthUtil as below :

accessToken = GoogleAuthUtil.getToken(this, mPlusClient.getAc

Answer 1

E/GoogleAuthUtil(4696): java.lang.IllegalStateException: calling this from your main thread can lead to deadlock

Sounds like you need to do that on a separate thread, have you tried that?

Here you can find information about threads in Android.