Toast in new Thread

Question

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?

Answer 1

Please refer to this question..

It shows how to let any part of your application access the Context in a static manner.

[Static way to get 'Context' on Android? ]

Why is it not built into the API ? we'll never know..

HTH