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Android Threads and Services Threads in Android Threads and Runnables

Trainer Workout
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Toast does not show after Button click

Any ideas why the Toast does not show on Button click ?

(...)
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    public static final String TAG = MainActivity.class.getSimpleName();
    private Button downloadButton;

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

        downloadButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.download_button);

        downloadButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                String message = getString(R.string.downloading);
                Log.d(TAG, message);
                // Toast does not show after Button click
                Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                downloadSong();
            } // onClick()
        }); // OnClickListener()
    } // onCreate()

    private void downloadSong() {
        (...)
    } // downloadSong()
} // MainActivity

2 Answers

Trainer Workout
Trainer Workout
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Trainer Workout
Trainer Workout
22,341 Points

The problem is explained in the video by Ben. To solve this, the downloadSong() method has to be called in a separate thread than the UI thread. In order to this, we need to create a Runnable and start a Thread using that runnable.

downloadButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                String message = getString(R.string.downloading);
                Log.d(TAG, message);
                Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        downloadSong();
                    } //run()
                }; // Runnable()

                Thread thread = new Thread(runnable);
                thread.setName("DownloadThread");
                thread.start();
            } // onClick()
        }); // OnClickListener()
Anastasiia Karpenko
Anastasiia Karpenko
2,413 Points
Anastasiia Karpenko
Anastasiia Karpenko
2,413 Points

Also do not forget to include android:onClick="true" to the Button view in xml file. After I included it , the toast became visible after I clicked the button