How to get XML using AsyncTask and Timer?

Question

In order to get XML data from a server repeatedly, I\'m attempting to use AsyncTask and Timer as per Mark Murphy\'s suggestion.

I get the following error:

Answer 1

The problem seems to be that you haven't called Looper.prepare(). You could have a look at the documentation for Looper.

A Handler needs a message loop in order to process messages and a Thread by default doesn't have one.

It seems that AsyncTask uses a Handler internally so add Looper.prepare() at the top of your run() method in MyTimerTask and that should solve your problem.