AsyncTask and Looper.prepare() error

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Long story:

AsyncTask internally uses a Handler. A handler basically allows you to post Runnables from another thread on the thread the handler was assigned to, which in the case of AsyncTask is always the thread from which it is called. This only works for threads that have a Looper prepared, though.

For more information see http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Handler.html

Short story:

Simply wrap every call to FinderMain$1.gotLocation or the creation of AsyncTask within it in a Runnable, and post it to a Handler bound to the UI thread, like this:

class GetLastLocation extends TimerTask {
    private Handler mHandler = new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper());

    @Override
    public void run() {
       // ...
       mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
          public void run() {
              locationResult.gotLocation(null);
          }
       });
       // ...
     }
}

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