SwipeRefreshLayout and AsyncHttpClient not working on first onCreate

Question

I am using SwipeRefreshLayout to fetch data remotely which I use AsyncHttpClient to take care of the network side of things.

Everything works as expected except for one scenario: the first onCreate launch of the app.

The main activity:

public class MainActivity extends Activity implements AdapterView.OnItemClickListener, SwipeRefreshLayout.OnRefreshListener{

    ListView mainListView;
    JSONMainAdapter mJSONAdapter;
    SwipeRefreshLayout swipeLayout;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        swipeLayout = (SwipeRefreshLayout) findViewById(R.id.main_swipe_container);
        swipeLayout.setOnRefreshListener(this);
        swipeLayout.setColorScheme(android.R.color.holo_blue_bright,
                android.R.color.holo_green_light,
                android.R.color.holo_orange_light,
                android.R.color.holo_red_light);

        mainListView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.main_listview);
        mainListView.setOnItemClickListener(this);

        mJSONAdapter = new JSONMainAdapter(this, getLayoutInflater());
        mainListView.setAdapter(mJSONAdapter);

        getGames();
    }

The onRefresh:

@Override 
public void onRefresh() {
    getGames();
}

The getGames which does the network lifting:

private void getGames() {

        swipeLayout.setRefreshing(true);
        //gets logged on first onCreate load
        Log.d("DEBUG", "IN GET GAMES");

        MyRestClient.get("games", null, new JsonHttpResponseHandler() {
            @Override
            public void onSuccess(JSONObject jsonObject) {
                //does NOT get logged on first onCreate
                //but does get logged on refresh and other onCreate calls 
                Log.d("DEBUG", "IN GET GAMES ON SUCCESS");
                swipeLayout.setRefreshing(false);
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Success!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                mJSONAdapter.updateData(jsonObject.optJSONArray("games"));
            }

            @Override
            public void onFailure(int statusCode, Throwable throwable, JSONObject error) {
                Log.d("DEBUG", "IN GET GAMES ON FAIL");
                swipeLayout.setRefreshing(false);
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Error: " + statusCode + " " + throwable.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                Log.e("ERROR", statusCode + " " + throwable.getMessage());
            }
        });
    }

So when I launch the app from my IDE the onCreate calls the getGames() function and it logs that it gets in there, but the network MyRestClient.get("games", null, new JsonHttpResponseHandler() { doesn't get called as it doesn't fetch the data and never logs onSuccess or onFailure.

Right now if I swipe to refresh it works and succesfully populates my listview with fetched data and logs it was in onSuccess.

If I close the app via back button and re-open it works properly and refreshes my listview.

So it doesn't work only on the first onCreate call when launched from my IDE to the emulator -- but after that first initial onCreate doesn't work everything functions properly.

I am not sure what I'm missing here, any help is appreciated, thanks.

SwipeRefreshLayout: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/widget/SwipeRefreshLayout.html

AsyncHttpClient: http://loopj.com/android-async-http/

EDIT:

public class MyRestClient {
    private static final String BASE_URL = "http://10.10.1.10:3000/api/";

    private static AsyncHttpClient client = new AsyncHttpClient();

    public static void get(String url, RequestParams params, AsyncHttpResponseHandler responseHandler) {
        addAuthHeaders();
        client.get(getAbsoluteUrl(url), params, responseHandler);
    }

    public static void post(String url, RequestParams params, AsyncHttpResponseHandler responseHandler) {
        addAuthHeaders();
        client.post(getAbsoluteUrl(url), params, responseHandler);
    }

    private static String getAbsoluteUrl(String relativeUrl) {
        return BASE_URL + relativeUrl;
    }

    public static void addAuthHeaders(){
        client.addHeader("blah", "xxx");
        client.addHeader("blah", "xxx");
    }
}

EDIT 2:

> 05-05 08:51:20.477: E/memtrack(1696): Couldn't load memtrack module
> (No such file or directory) 05-05 08:51:20.477:
> E/android.os.Debug(1696): failed to load memtrack module: -2 05-05
> 08:51:20.857: D/AndroidRuntime(1696): Calling main entry
> com.android.commands.am.Am 05-05 08:51:20.937: I/ActivityManager(380):
> START u0 {act=android.intent.action.MAIN
> cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10000000
> cmp=com.example.myapp.app/.MainActivity} from pid 1696 05-05
> 08:51:21.047: D/gralloc(49): Registering a buffer in the process that
> created it. This may cause memory ordering problems. 05-05
> 08:51:21.047: E/libEGL(49): called unimplemented OpenGL ES API 05-05
> 08:51:21.057: E/libEGL(49): called unimplemented OpenGL ES API 05-05
> 08:51:21.057: E/libEGL(49): called unimplemented OpenGL ES API 05-05
> 08:51:21.057: E/libEGL(49): called unimplemented OpenGL ES API 05-05
> 08:51:21.057: E/SurfaceFlinger(49): glCheckFramebufferStatusOES error
> 1620973071 05-05 08:51:21.057: E/SurfaceFlinger(49): got
> GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE_OES error while taking screenshot 05-05
> 08:51:21.057: E/libEGL(49): called unimplemented OpenGL ES API 05-05
> 08:51:21.057: E/libEGL(49): called unimplemented OpenGL ES API 05-05
> 08:51:21.067: W/WindowManager(380): Screenshot failure taking
> screenshot for (328x546) to layer 21005

Thats the only part that looks out of the ordinary in my log when the app launches.

Answer 1

After further testing, I noticed it only happens on the emulator.

When launching to a real device the app responds as expected. At this point I'm chalking it up to an emulator related issue, but will keep this thread updated if anything concrete develops.

Answer 2

Do you mean, onCreate it doesn’t call getGames() ? Did you try to put getGames() into onResume() ?