I am trying to display a toast in a new thread. I researched into it and apparently I need to run toast in the UI thread. I need this new thread because Android doesn't want me running HTTPclient in the main thread. I can deal with a handler but my problem is, I can't figure a way to get the MainActivity context to the class I am in. It extends SherlockFragment and the constructor probably won't allow it to override.
This is my runnable as of the moment
new Thread(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("https://www.example.com/API/events/add.php");
try {
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(16);
httppost.getParams().setParameter(CoreProtocolPNames.USE_EXPECT_CONTINUE, Boolean.FALSE);
// Adding data
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("token", "admin"));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("eventTitle", title));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("categories", Integer.toString(catId)));
// Execute HTTP Post Request
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
String status = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
JSONObject jObj = null;
try {
jObj = new JSONObject(status);
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.e(MainActivity.class.getName(), "Error Parsing Data: " + e.toString());
}
try {
//Want to toast this string here, jObj.getString("status"))
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.e(MainActivity.class.getName(), "Error Reading Status String: " + e.toString());
}
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
}
}
}).start();
Any recommendations to as what I may do?