I currently trying to show a progress dialog on OnclickListener of a Dialogbox since my items are taking too long to fetch from Server. I use Async task as suggested here (Android progress dialog) and this post (android problem with progress dialog) to show progress dialog The progress dialog is shown , however the code returns exception when it goes to do background that " Looper is not set". And when I set looper nothing happens.
I am not sure at this stage what is it that I am doing wrong.
public void firstMethod()
{
final CustomObj obj = getCustomObj();//not imp
Messages.getInstance().showAlert(MainActivity.this, "message", false, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener()
{
@Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which)
{
dialog.dismiss();
}
}, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener()
{
@Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which)
{
gotoAnotherPge(obj);
}
});
}
public void gotoAnotherPge(final CustomObject obj)
{
final ProgressDialog pd = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
new AsyncTask<Object, Object, Boolean>()
{
protected void onPreExecute()
{
pd.setMessage(String.format(Statics.getText(MainActivity.this, R.raw.dictionary, "subscriptions_loading_unsubscribing")));
pd.show();
}
protected Boolean doInBackground(Object... params)
{
try{
Looper.prepare();
final LocalPopulator lp = new LocalPopulator(MainActivity.this, 0)
{
@Override
public void populate()
{
List<Serializable> items = Arrays.asList(getItemHere(obj));
List<Serializable> listItems = new ArrayList<Serializable>();
listItems.addAll(items);
Serializable[] sItems = listItems.toArray(new Serializable[menuItems.size()]);
result = sItems;
}
};
showNextPage(true, 1, 0, lp);
Looper.loop();
}catch (Exception e){
Log.e("tag", e.getMessage());
/*
* The task failed
*/
return false;
}
return true;
}
protected void onPostExecute(Boolean result)
{
pd.dismiss();
}
};
MainActivity.this.runOnUiThread (new Runnable()
{
@Override
public void run()
{
// dismiss the progressdialog
pd.dismiss();
}
});
}
