Java Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()
<p>I saw most of the related questions, but I couldn't find any that fixed my problem.</p>

<p>This is my code, and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.</p>

<pre><code>static class NamedFile {
    public File f;

    public String name;
    public String ext;
    public String path;
    public BitmapDrawable icon;

    public NamedFile (File file) {
        f = file;
        name = f.getName();
        if (f.isFile()) {
            if (name.indexOf('.') != -1) {
                ext = name.substring(name.lastIndexOf('.') + 1).trim().toLowerCase();
            } else {
                ext = "unknown";
            }
        }
        path = f.getAbsolutePath();

        if (ext == null) {
            icon = mFolderIcon;
        } else {
            BitmapDrawable i = icons.get(ext);
            if (i == null) {
                    try {
                        int rid = R.drawable.class.getField(ext).getInt(R.drawable.class);
                        icons.put(ext, new BitmapDrawable(Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(BitmapFactory.decodeResource(res, rid, mOpts), iconSize, iconSize, false)));
                        icon = icons.get(ext);
                    } catch (Exception e1) {}
            } else {
                icon = i;
            }
        }/* else if (ext.equals("jpeg") || ext.equals("jpg") || ext.equals("bmp") || ext.equals("gif") || ext.equals("png")) {
            Bitmap b = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(path, mOpts);
            if (b != null) {
                icon = new BitmapDrawable(Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(b, iconSize, iconSize, false));
            }
        }*/

        if (ext != null &amp;&amp; (ext.equals("jpeg") || ext.equals("jpg") || ext.equals("bmp") || ext.equals("gif") || ext.equals("png"))) {
            /*
            Bitmap b = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(path, mOpts);
            if (b != null) {
                icon = new BitmapDrawable(Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(b, iconSize, iconSize, false));
            }
            */

            final Handler handler = new Handler() {
                @Override
                public void handleMessage(Message message) {
                    HashMap&lt;String, Object&gt; m = ((HashMap&lt;String, Object&gt;)message.obj);
                    sendThumbnail ((String)m.get("path"), (byte[])m.get("data"));
                }
            };


            Thread thread = new Thread() {
                public void writeInt (byte[] buff, int pos, int value) {
                    buff[pos] = (byte)(value &gt;&gt;&gt; 24);
                    buff[pos + 1] = (byte)(value &gt;&gt;&gt; 16);
                    buff[pos + 2] = (byte)(value &gt;&gt;&gt; 8);
                    buff[pos + 3] = (byte)value;
                }

                @Override
                public void run() {
                    try {
                        Bitmap b = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(path, mOpts);
                        if (b.getHeight() &gt; 256 || b.getWidth() &gt; 256) {
                            float r;
                            if (b.getHeight() &gt; b.getWidth()) {
                                r = 128f / b.getHeight();
                            } else {
                                r = 128f / b.getWidth();
                            }

                            b = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(b, (int)(r * b.getWidth()), (int)(r * b.getHeight()), false);

                            byte[] buffer = new byte[b.getWidth() * b.getHeight() * 4 + 8];

                            writeInt (buffer, 0, b.getWidth());
                            writeInt (buffer, 4, b.getHeight());

                            int i = 8;
                            for (int y = 0; y &lt; b.getHeight(); y ++) {
                                for (int x = 0; x &lt; b.getWidth(); x ++) {
                                    writeInt (buffer, i, b.getPixel(x, y));

                                    i += 4;
                                }
                            }

                            HashMap&lt;String, Object&gt; msg = new HashMap&lt;String, Object&gt;();

                            msg.put("path", path);
                            msg.put("data", buffer);

                            Message message = handler.obtainMessage(1, msg);
                            handler.sendMessage(message);
                        }
                    } catch (Exception e) {
                        sendLog (e.toString());
                    }
                }
            };
            thread.start();


        }

        if (icon == null) {
            icon = mFileIcon;
        }
    }
    public NamedFile () {
    }

    public NamedFile simpleClone () {
        final NamedFile nf = new NamedFile();

        nf.name = name;
        nf.ext = ext;
        nf.path = path;

        return nf;
    }
}
</code></pre>

<p>This is nested inside an if statement that is in a static class' constructor function and the static class is in a public class that extends ListActivity. I'm new to Java.</p>

<p>Error:</p>

<pre><code>05-01 20:21:58.810: E/AndroidRuntime(584): Uncaught handler: thread AsyncTask #1 exiting due to uncaught exception
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584): java.lang.RuntimeException: An error occured while executing doInBackground()
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at android.os.AsyncTask$3.done(AsyncTask.java:200)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerSetException(FutureTask.java:273)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.setException(FutureTask.java:124)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:307)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:137)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1068)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:561)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1096)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at android.os.Handler.&lt;init&gt;(Handler.java:121)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at greg.projects.FileTransfer.FileTransferActivity$NamedFile$1.&lt;init&gt;(FileTransferActivity.java:588)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at greg.projects.FileTransfer.FileTransferActivity$NamedFile.&lt;init&gt;(FileTransferActivity.java:588)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at greg.projects.FileTransfer.FileTransferActivity$GesturesLoadTask.doInBackground(FileTransferActivity.java:489)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at greg.projects.FileTransfer.FileTransferActivity$GesturesLoadTask.doInBackground(FileTransferActivity.java:1)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:185)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:305)
05-01 20:21:58.830: E/AndroidRuntime(584):  ... 4 more
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<p>(FileTransferActivity.java:588 is <code>final Handler handler = new Handler() {</code>)</p>
