See Also: Looper Members
Class used to run a message loop for a thread. Threads by default do not have a message loop associated with them; to create one, call Looper.Prepare in the thread that is to run the loop, and then Looper.Loop to have it process messages until the loop is stopped.
Most interaction with a message loop is through the Android.OS.Handler class.
This is a typical example of the implementation of a Looper thread, using the separation of Looper.Prepare and Looper.Loop to create an initial Handler to communicate with the Looper.
java Example
class LooperThread extends Thread { public Handler mHandler; public void run() { Looper.prepare(); mHandler = new Handler() { public void handleMessage(Message msg) { // process incoming messages here } }; Looper.loop(); } }