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AndroidEnthusiast
AndroidEnthusiast

Reputation: 6657

App crashes when rotating phone due to the Window Manager

My andorid app works fine in most cases but sometimes crashes when the phone rotates, i get the error log below which I don't understand. Can anyone explain why this happens?

Here is the error log :

02-22 14:44:52.175: D/AndroidRuntime(26784): Shutting down VM
02-22 14:44:52.175: W/dalvikvm(26784): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40e81300)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: View not attached to window manager
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.findViewLocked(WindowManagerImpl.java:653)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.removeView(WindowManagerImpl.java:349)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at android.view.WindowManagerImpl$CompatModeWrapper.removeView(WindowManagerImpl.java:160)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at android.app.Dialog.dismissDialog(Dialog.java:319)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at android.app.Dialog.dismiss(Dialog.java:302)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at com.example.chartviewer.JsonActivity$getChartItems.onPostExecute(JsonActivity.java:267)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at com.example.chartviewer.JsonActivity$getChartItems.onPostExecute(JsonActivity.java:1)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at android.os.AsyncTask.finish(AsyncTask.java:631)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at android.os.AsyncTask.access$600(AsyncTask.java:177)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.handleMessage(AsyncTask.java:644)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
02-22 14:44:52.183: E/AndroidRuntime(26784):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Update

Here is the code for the the onPostExecuteMethod:

//Removes the progress dialog when the data has been fetched

        protected void onPostExecute(String args) {
            progressDialog.dismiss();

            //Shows alert dialog if data is unavailable
            if(args != null && args.equals(noData)){

                 AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(JsonActivity.this);
                 builder.setIcon(R.drawable.artistlogo);
                 builder.setTitle("Musicmetric Charts");
                 builder.setMessage(noData);
                 builder.setOnCancelListener(new DialogInterface.OnCancelListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onCancel(DialogInterface dialog) {
                        // finishes the activity and leads back to the list of charts 
                        JsonActivity.this.finish();

                    }

                });

                 AlertDialog alert = builder.create();
                 alert.show();

            }



        }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 564

Answers (2)

Droidman
Droidman

Reputation: 11608

to expand ashtom's answer: try to maintain device rotation by yourself: 

    @Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
    super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
if(newConfig.equals(Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE)){
        // TODO
    }else if (newConfig.equals(Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT)){
        // TODO
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

ashtom
ashtom

Reputation: 804

These are the 2 relevant lines in your stacktrace:

com.example.chartviewer.JsonActivity$getChartItems.onPostExecute(JsonActivity.java:267)

You have implemented the onPostExcecute method of an AsyncTask. This method is dismissing a dialog:

android.app.Dialog.dismiss(Dialog.java:302)

When you rotate the device, the AsyncTask continues to run and tries to hide a dialog that isn't visible anymore.

Upvotes: 4

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