You need to call finish() from the UI thread, not a background thread. The way to do this is to declare a Handler and ask the Handler to run a Runnable on the UI thread. For example:
public class LoadingScreen extends Activity{
private LoadingScreen loadingScreen;
Intent i = new Intent(this, HomeScreen.class);
Handler handler;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
handler = new Handler();
setContentView(R.layout.loading);
CountDownTimer timer = new CountDownTimer(10000, 1000) //10seceonds Timer
{
@Override
public void onTick(long l)
{
}
@Override
public void onFinish()
{
handler.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
loadingScreen.finishActivity(0);
startActivity(i);
}
});
};
}.start();
}
}