How do you display a Toast from a background thread on Android?

Question

How can I display Toast messages from a thread?

Answer 1

Like this or this, with a Runnable that shows the Toast. Namely,

Activity activity = // reference to an Activity
// or
View view = // reference to a View

activity.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        showToast(activity);
    }
});
// or
view.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        showToast(view.getContext());
    }
});

private void showToast(Context ctx) {
    Toast.makeText(ctx, "Hi!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

Answer 2

You can do it by calling an Activity's runOnUiThread method from your thread:

activity.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        Toast.makeText(activity, "Hello", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
});

Answer 3

I encountered the same problem：

E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: Thread-4
              Process: com.example.languoguang.welcomeapp, PID: 4724
              java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't toast on a thread that has not called Looper.prepare()
                  at android.widget.Toast$TN.<init>(Toast.java:393)
                  at android.widget.Toast.<init>(Toast.java:117)
                  at android.widget.Toast.makeText(Toast.java:280)
                  at android.widget.Toast.makeText(Toast.java:270)
                  at com.example.languoguang.welcomeapp.MainActivity$1.run(MainActivity.java:51)
                  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)
I/Process: Sending signal. PID: 4724 SIG: 9
Application terminated.

Before: onCreate function

Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Thread", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
});
thread.start();

After: onCreate function

runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Thread", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
});

it worked.

Answer 4

1. Get UI Thread Handler instance and use handler.sendMessage();
2. Call post() method handler.post();
3. runOnUiThread()
4. view.post()

Answer 5

You can use Looper to send Toast message. Go through this link for more details.

public void showToastInThread(final Context context,final String str){
    Looper.prepare();
    MessageQueue queue = Looper.myQueue();
    queue.addIdleHandler(new IdleHandler() {
         int mReqCount = 0;

         @Override
         public boolean queueIdle() {
             if (++mReqCount == 2) {
                  Looper.myLooper().quit();
                  return false;
             } else
                  return true;
         }
    });
    Toast.makeText(context, str,Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();      
    Looper.loop();
}

and it is called in your thread. Context may be Activity.getContext() getting from the Activity you have to show the toast.