Android AsyncTask [Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()]

Question

I\'ve created an image upload AsyncTask based on a function. And after uploading, I get this error on onPostExecute(). I read up some StackOverflow

Answer 1

You are attempting to update the UI from a background thread. Either move the toast to onPostExecute, which executes on the UI thread (recommended), or call runOnUiThread.

runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        // runs on UI thread
    }
});

Answer 2

at dev.shaunidiot.imageupload.MainActivity$uploadFile.doInBackground(MainActivity.java:128)

You could use the progress mechanism of AsyncTasks to update UI from inside doInBackground while the task is running:

replace

Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), serverResponseMessage,
        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
        serverResponseCode.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
        .show();

in doInBackground with

publishProgress(serverResponseMessage, serverResponseCode.toString());

and add the following to your AsyncTask implementation

@Override
protected void onProgressUpdate(String... values) {
    if (values != null) {
        for (String value : values) {
            // shows a toast for every value we get
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, value, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    }
}

You already have set String as progress type in AsyncTask<Params, Progress, Result> so in case you want to use progress for something different you can try to use runOnUiThread but I don't know if that will work.