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Android

Ashraf Rahman
Ashraf Rahman
6,111 Points
Posted by Ashraf Rahman
Ashraf Rahman
6,111 Points

What is "E/AbstractTracker: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()"?

So i've finished the tutorial for the weather app but i keep getting the error "E/AbstractTracker: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()", why is this happening? doesn't the tutorial help with asynchronous coding? i haven't changed anything and followed the tutorial as close as possible. what can i do to solve this error. no other indication was given to help me find the exact location of this error other than the message you see.

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Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

Since you say you're working with on Stormy, this error message is probably because you're trying to display something from the background thread instead of the UI thread and you forgot to wrap it in a runOnUiThread() call.