Using toast inside timertask

Question

Found someone has similar issue online here.

This doesn\'t work:

Timer t = new Timer(false);
t.schedule(new TimerTask() {
@Override
public void run()         


        

Answer 1

Everytime you start an application, it starts on the UI Thread (also called the Main Thread).

Whenever you create a new Thread, or Timer, or AsyncTask, by definition, they're creating new Threads. Threads that aren't the main thread simply don't have permission to modify the UI.