The following method call does not terminate within a separate thread in my application.
Looper.loop();
I'm not able to diagnose why this occurs. Any suggestions?
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it loops the separate thread, so how can it hang the main UI thread? – pskink Sep 21 '14 at 19:17
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Apologies it was actually caused by having a semaphore lock the main thread. I've edited the question. – Chris Stryczynski Sep 21 '14 at 19:22
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http://androidxref.com/4.4_r1/xref/frameworks/base/core/java/android/os/Looper.java#123 – pskink Sep 21 '14 at 19:27
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Hi there I'm not sure what I should be seeing over there? If it's the facts that it's an infinite for loop, correct. But the loop should terminate once no messages are left in the que, should it not? – Chris Stryczynski Sep 21 '14 at 19:32
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why should it terminate? – pskink Sep 21 '14 at 19:35
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It should terminate because the que is finite, and hence line 127 should execute? – Chris Stryczynski Sep 21 '14 at 19:38
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line 127 is reached when you call Looper.quit(), otherwise loop() - as its name suggests - loops forever – pskink Sep 21 '14 at 19:41