Calling Looper more than once causes “sending message to a Handler on a dead thread”

Question

I am using an Executor [fixed thread pool] with my own ThreadFactory that adds a Looper:

Handler HANDLER = new Handler();
Executor    THREADS = Executors.newFixe         


        

Answer 1

See http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20915, which is a possible root cause of the problem. It includes a workaround for the issue.