Re: [android-developers] how to display a Toast from an IntentService?

Flying Coder wrote:
> So, I have an IntentService that handles button callbacks from a
> widget. When the user presses a certain button, I want to display a
> Toast. I return from onHandleIntent almost immediately after doing
> Toast.show(), which in turn stops the service and kills its thread,
> which keeps the Toast from actually being displayed.

That's interesting. I've never tried that pattern. I'm a bit surprised
that the Toast doesn't fire.

> Can anyone suggest an easy way to get the Toast (or something similar)
> to display from an IntentService?

Have you tried SystemClock.sleep()? It's a serious kludge, but I don't
know what else you can do.

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