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Nancy Melucci
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Nancy Melucci
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Posted by Nancy Melucci
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Nancy Melucci
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Move TwitterThread into Handler

I am having a lot of trouble figuring this out. The tutorial isn't a great example because the classes are in separate files. How do I make the inner classes work in the code challenges? Thanks....

MainActivity.java 
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
  Button button;
  TwitterClient twitterClient = new TwitterClient();

  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    //final TwitterThread twitterThread = new TwitterThread();
    //twitterThread.setName("TwitterThread");
    //twitterThread.start();

    button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.update_button);
    button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
      @Override
      public void onClick(View v){

      }
    });
  }

  class TwitterHandler extends Handler {
     @Override
    public void handleMessage("TwitterThread") { 
      twitterClient.update();
    }
  }
}