[FIXED] caused by: Can't toast on a thread that has not called Looper.prepare()

Issue

So whenever I Enter a city name in the EditText and press the button my app just crashes and does not show a toast

shows this error in logcat : used by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Can't toast on a thread that has not called Looper.prepare()

Does anyone know who to fix this error? im using android studio

package com.example.whatstheweather;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.content.Context;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Looper;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLEncoder;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    EditText editText;
    TextView resultTextView;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        editText = findViewById(R.id.editTextTextPersonName);
        resultTextView = findViewById(R.id.resultTextView);
    }

   public void getWeather(View view){

try {

    DownloadTask task = new DownloadTask();
    String encodedCityName = URLEncoder.encode(editText.getText().toString(), "UTF-8");
    task.execute("http://openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=" + encodedCityName + "&APPID=9eebb30a9664baf113136d98e764ffb5");
    InputMethodManager mgr = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    mgr.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);
}catch (Exception e){
    e.printStackTrace();
    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Could not find weather :(",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

}
    }



    public class DownloadTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String >{


        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(String... urls) {

            String result = "";
            URL url;
            HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;

            try {

                url = new URL(urls[0]);
                urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
                InputStream in = urlConnection.getInputStream();
                InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(in);
                int data = reader.read();

                while(data != -1){
                    char current = (char) data;
                    result += current;
                    data = reader.read();
                }
                return result;
            }catch(Exception e){

                e.printStackTrace();;
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Could not find weather :(",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                return null;

            }

        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String s) {
            super.onPostExecute(s);
            try {
                JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(s);
                String weatherInfo = jsonObject.getString("weather");
                JSONArray arr = new JSONArray(weatherInfo);
                String message = "";
                for (int i = 0; i< arr.length(); i++){
                    JSONObject jsonPart =arr.getJSONObject(i);

                    String main = jsonPart.getString("main");
                    String description = jsonPart.getString("description");
                    if (!main.equals("") && !description.equals("")) {
                        message += main + ": " + description + "\r\n";

                    }

                }
                if (!message.equals("")){

                    resultTextView.setText(message);
                }else{
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Could not find weather :(",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                }
            }catch (Exception e){
                e.printStackTrace();
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Could not find weather :(",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

            }
        }
    }

}

Solution

 try {
    //add her code
 } catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
    runOnUiThread(new Runnable(){
      public void run() {
          Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Please key in 
                      the correct input",    
            Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
      }
    });
   e.printStackTrace();
    return true; // attention here

}

Answered By - Rinkal Patel
Answer Checked By - David Goodson (JavaFixing Volunteer)