On rotate android application crashes

Question

I have a application which use two layouts in portrait ans landscape. To load content form web at the initial load I use a AsyncTask and a progress bar.

I checked this. Since I have two layouts this is not the solution.

The exception is given below.

> 05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138): Activity com.news.one has leaked window com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView@482b0130 that was originally added here
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138): android.view.WindowLeaked: Activity com.news.one has leaked window com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView@482b0130 that was originally added here
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at android.view.ViewRoot.<init>(ViewRoot.java:247)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:181)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:124)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at android.view.Window$LocalWindowManager.addView(Window.java:424)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at android.app.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:241)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at com.news.one$DownloadNews.onPreExecute(AdaDeranaTabActivity.java:365)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at android.os.AsyncTask.execute(AsyncTask.java:391)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at com.news.one.onCreate(AdaDeranaTabActivity.java:201)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:858)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)
05-08 16:44:43.483: E/WindowManager(20138):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: View not attached to window manager
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.findViewLocked(WindowManagerImpl.java:388)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.removeView(WindowManagerImpl.java:233)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at android.view.Window$LocalWindowManager.removeView(Window.java:432)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at android.app.Dialog.dismissDialog(Dialog.java:278)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at android.app.Dialog.access$000(Dialog.java:71)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at android.app.Dialog$1.run(Dialog.java:111)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at android.app.Dialog.dismiss(Dialog.java:268)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at com.news.one$DownloadNews.onPostExecute(AdaDeranaTabActivity.java:376)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at com.news.one$DownloadNews.onPostExecute(AdaDeranaTabActivity.java:1)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at android.os.AsyncTask.finish(AsyncTask.java:417)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at android.os.AsyncTask.access$300(AsyncTask.java:127)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.handleMessage(AsyncTask.java:429)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:858)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)
05-08 16:44:54.065: E/AndroidRuntime(20138):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Is there a method to lock the rotation change till the application loads it self?

Or and other idea?

Thanks in advance.

As per my understanding you have to re think of logic you are applying while you are doing orientation. — Roll no1, May 08 '12 at 12:10
I called the `progressDialog.dismiss()` again in the `onDestroy()` method. During a orientation change, the activity restarts. So before restart we have to destroy the current progressDialog. This does the trick. :D — saji159, May 08 '12 at 14:32

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

When you switch orientations, Android will create a new View. You're probably getting crashes because your background thread is trying to change the state on the old one. (It may also be having trouble because your background thread isn't on the UI thread). These are the solutions:

How to handle screen orientation change when progress dialog and background thread active?

Activity restart on rotation Android

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 09 '12 at 08:02

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I called the progressDialog.dismiss() in the onDestroy() method.

During a orientation change, the activity restarts. So before restart we have to destroy the current progressDialog. This does the trick. :D

answered May 09 '12 at 08:02

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Vivek Kumar Srivastava · Answer 3 · 2012-05-09T05:10:21.657

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You are getting WindowLeak Exception, this exception occur when any dialog/progressBar uses the reference of context and context reference lost due to orientation change.

So put below code for all activity tag in manifest file.

android:configChanges="orientation|keyboard"

example:

<activity
            android:name=".InviteActivity" android:configChanges="orientation|keyboard"/>

and use below code in activity

 @Override
    public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig)
    {
        setContentView(R.layout.YOUR_LAYOUT);
        super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
    }

edited May 09 '12 at 05:10

answered May 08 '12 at 12:20

Vivek Kumar Srivastava

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This is not going to work. I have two layouts. so I can't lock the activity. – saji159 May 08 '12 at 13:44
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this method **use the same layout in vertical and horizontal directions**. I rechecked. but not working... :( – saji159 May 14 '12 at 07:14
I have tested this code on my device then post answer. Where you put landscape layout (I mean in which folder) – Vivek Kumar Srivastava May 14 '12 at 07:15
landscape layout should be in layout-land folder with same name – Vivek Kumar Srivastava May 14 '12 at 07:20
As mentioned I put the layout in layout-land folder. It solve the rotation problem, but generate another problem.The UI does not show anything after rotation. I have several galleries which download the content form a url. – saji159 May 14 '12 at 08:16
use lazy loading http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5867894/android-help-in-adapting-listview-adapter-with-an-imageloader-class-lazylist to load the image from url. – Vivek Kumar Srivastava May 14 '12 at 08:26

Bruno Bieri · Answer 4 · 2012-05-09T06:03:39.700

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I had the same problem and solved it that way that I locked the orientation before start synchronisation and set it back after synchronize:

// before
setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_NOSENSOR);

// after synchronisation: 
setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR);

edited May 09 '12 at 06:03

answered May 09 '12 at 05:21

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On rotate android application crashes

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