Could your create a handler in your async task? If handler created in UI thread(If use MainLooper) post method samely runOnUiThread.
private class UploadNewGroupToServer extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Void>
{
ProgressDialog createGroupProgressDialog;
Handler handler;
protected void onPreExecute(){
handler = new Handler();
}
@Override
protected Void doInBackground(String... params)
{
handler.post(new Runnable()
{
public void run()
{
createGroupProgressDialog = new ProgressDialog(getActivity());
createGroupProgressDialog.setTitle("Creating group...");
createGroupProgressDialog.show();
}
});
String encodedImage = params[0];
String groupTitle = params[1];
String groupDesc = params[2];
//Create a new HttpClient and Post Header
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(URL_API_CREATE_GROUP);
try
{
// Add data
ArrayList<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
if(encodedImage != null)
{
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("picture", encodedImage));
}
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("title", groupTitle));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("desc", groupDesc));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("token", "MY_TOKEN_HERE!"));
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
// Execute HTTP Post Request
ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
Log.d("APP", "Going to execute ");
final String responseBody = httpclient.execute(httppost, responseHandler);
Log.d("APP", "Back from execute, responseBody is " + responseBody);
//More business logic here
// . . . . .
throw new Exception(); //simulate an error
} catch (final Exception e)
{
Log.d("APP", "Exception es " + e.getMessage());
createGroupProgressDialog.dismiss();
handler.post(new Runnable() //App dies here!
{
public void run()
{
Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "Error!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
});
}
return null;
}