[android] Can't create handler inside thread which has not called Looper.prepare()

I have an Activity, and in that I have a class.

text=new Dynamictext(...);
text.setText("txt");

in my DynamicText java I have this code:

public void setText(String text) {
    this.text=text;
    new asyncCreateText().execute();
    //this.createText(text);
}

//private Handler handler = new Handler();

private class asyncCreateText extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> 
{
    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... unused) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void unused) {

    }
}

I get:

ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5176): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()

How can I handle this error?

ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5370): java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5370):     at com.l.start.DynamicText.setText(DynamicText.java:125)
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5370):     at com.l.start.OpenGLRenderer.initfonts(OpenGLRenderer.java:168)
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5370):     at com.l.start.OpenGLRenderer.init(OpenGLRenderer.java:119)
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5370):     at com.l.start.OpenGLRenderer.onSurfaceChanged(OpenGLRenderer.java:90)
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5370):     at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.guardedRun(GLSurfaceView.java:1120)
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5370):     at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.run(GLSurfaceView.java:975)

ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5370): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: 
    Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5370):     at android.os.Handler.<init>(Handler.java:121)
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5370):     at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.<init>(AsyncTask.java:421)
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5370):     at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.<init>(AsyncTask.java:421)
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5370):     at android.os.AsyncTask.<clinit>(AsyncTask.java:152)
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5370):     ... 6 more

You create handler in background thread this way

private void createHandler() {
        Thread thread = new Thread() {
          public void run() {
               Looper.prepare();

               final Handler handler = new Handler();
               handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                       // Do Work
                        handler.removeCallbacks(this);
                        Looper.myLooper().quit();
                   }
                }, 2000);

                Looper.loop();
            }
        };
        thread.start();
    }

Try running you asyntask from the UI thread. I faced this issue when I wasn't doing the same!

Activity.runOnUiThread() does not work for me. I worked around this issue by creating a regular thread this way:

public class PullTasksThread extends Thread {
   public void run () {
      Log.d(Prefs.TAG, "Thread run...");
   }
}

and calling it from the GL update this way:

new PullTasksThread().start();

All the answers above are correct, but I think this is the easiest example possible:

public class ExampleActivity extends Activity {
    private Handler handler;
    private ProgressBar progress;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        progress = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progressBar1);
        handler = new Handler();
    }

    public void clickAButton(View view) {
        // Do something that takes a while
        Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                handler.post(new Runnable() { // This thread runs in the UI
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        progress.setProgress("anything"); // Update the UI
                    }
                });
            }
        };
        new Thread(runnable).start();
    }
}

What this does is update a progress bar in the UI thread from a completely different thread passed through the post() method of the handler declared in the activity.

Hope it helps!

Try this

    Handler mHandler = new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper());
                        mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                            @Override
                            public void run() {
 //your code here that talks with the UI level widgets/ try to access the UI 
//elements from this block because this piece of snippet will run in the UI/MainThread.                                     
                            }
                        });