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

Oh for doing it from the callback from IntentService, you need to do it from a thread that is actually running a responsive looper (which by definition IntentService does not, since the thread it is calling you on is there to run long-running operations).

So schedule a message in a Handler of the main thread, and show it there.  Basically the same as any time you want to touch other parts of your UI.

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Flying Coder <av8r.steve@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Mark,
   Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately, SystemClock.sleep()
doesn't do the trick. :-(

Cheers,
Steve

On Jun 11, 1:22 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> 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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