Looper.prepare

[elidor86]

when starting a connection from android service i got this error :

04-10 13:28:47.954: E/AndroidRuntime(25438): FATAL EXCEPTION: Timer-0
04-10 13:28:47.954: E/AndroidRuntime(25438): java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()
04-10 13:28:47.954: E/AndroidRuntime(25438): at android.os.Handler.(Handler.java:121)
04-10 13:28:47.954: E/AndroidRuntime(25438): at de.tavendo.autobahn.WebSocketConnection$ThreadHandler.(WebSocketConnection.java:526)
04-10 13:28:47.954: E/AndroidRuntime(25438): at de.tavendo.autobahn.WebSocketConnection.(WebSocketConnection.java:65)
04-10 13:28:47.954: E/AndroidRuntime(25438): at com.taxi.driver.DdpClient.connect(DdpClient.java:151)
04-10 13:28:47.954: E/AndroidRuntime(25438): at com.taxi.driver.DriverService.logMeIn(DriverService.java:728)
04-10 13:28:47.954: E/AndroidRuntime(25438): at com.taxi.driver.DriverService.connectMe(DriverService.java:790)
04-10 13:28:47.954: E/AndroidRuntime(25438): at com.taxi.driver.DriverService$BackgroundTimer.run(DriverService.java:200)
04-10 13:28:47.954: E/AndroidRuntime(25438): at java.util.Timer$TimerImpl.run(Timer.java:284)

if started from the main UI thread ,working great

[palmerc]

Can you give any details on this? How you managed to get it to crash?

[elidor86]

I setup a timer to check every X seconds that the connection is still alive and working, if the socket seems to be dead i reconnect to the server, during this reconntion i got this error, solved it withe getting the main looper and run it from the main ui thread