Android emulator crash if click while processing

Question

I've been working on an android app and test it on the emulator. Parts of this app require some processing time, such as login, could take up to 10 seconds. If the app is processing the login, and I clicked anywhere on the emulator screen, it will cause the app to crash -> a force close/wait window will pop up and even I choose to wait, this login process will never complete.

I wonder did anybody else encounter this situation? What could I do to avoid user clicking during processing and crash the program? Or on a real phone it is not a problem?

Thanks!

EDIT: This is indeed a UI thread problem and I'm using Mono for Android to write this app, I sort my issues out using methods introduced Here!

EDIT: this is the LOGCAT messages

1-11 00:38:49.165 W/WindowManager(   59): Key dispatching timed out sending to BadumnaAndroidApi1.BadumnaAndroidApi1/badumnaandroidapi1.Activity1
01-11 00:38:49.165 W/WindowManager(   59): Previous dispatch state: {{KeyEvent{action=1 code=66 repeat=0 meta=0 scancode=28 mFlags=8} to Window{44ed87d0 BadumnaAndroidApi1.BadumnaAndroidApi1/badumnaandroidapi1.Activity1 paused=false} @ 1326241690617 lw=Window{44ed87d0 BadumnaAndroidApi1.BadumnaAndroidApi1/badumnaandroidapi1.Activity1 paused=false} lb=android.os.BinderProxy@4508a900 fin=false gfw=true ed=true tts=0 wf=false fp=false mcf=Window{44ed87d0 BadumnaAndroidApi1.BadumnaAndroidApi1/badumnaandroidapi1.Activity1 paused=false}}}
01-11 00:38:49.175 W/WindowManager(   59): Current dispatch state: {{null to Window{44ed87d0 BadumnaAndroidApi1.BadumnaAndroidApi1/badumnaandroidapi1.Activity1 paused=false} @ 1326242329174 lw=Window{44ed87d0 BadumnaAndroidApi1.BadumnaAndroidApi1/badumnaandroidapi1.Activity1 paused=false} lb=android.os.BinderProxy@4508a900 fin=false gfw=true ed=true tts=0 wf=false fp=false mcf=Window{44ed87d0 BadumnaAndroidApi1.BadumnaAndroidApi1/badumnaandroidapi1.Activity1 paused=false}}}
01-11 00:38:49.276 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 316 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:49.276 I/dalvikvm(  316): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:49.485 I/dalvikvm(  316): Wrote stack traces to '/data/anr/traces.txt'
01-11 00:38:49.485 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 59 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:49.485 I/dalvikvm(   59): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:49.595 I/dalvikvm(   59): Wrote stack traces to '/data/anr/traces.txt'
01-11 00:38:49.616 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 114 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:49.616 I/dalvikvm(  114): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:49.625 I/dalvikvm(  114): Wrote stack traces to '/data/anr/traces.txt'
01-11 00:38:49.636 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 107 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:49.645 I/dalvikvm(  107): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:49.655 I/dalvikvm(  107): Wrote stack traces to '/data/anr/traces.txt'
01-11 00:38:49.673 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 254 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:49.865 I/dalvikvm(  254): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:49.875 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 246 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:49.906 I/dalvikvm(  246): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:50.085 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 177 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:50.115 I/dalvikvm(  177): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:50.285 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 221 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:50.345 I/dalvikvm(  221): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:50.495 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 169 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:50.575 I/dalvikvm(  169): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:50.695 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 185 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:50.735 I/dalvikvm(  185): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:50.905 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 111 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:50.905 I/dalvikvm(  111): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:51.065 I/dalvikvm(  111): Wrote stack traces to '/data/anr/traces.txt'
01-11 00:38:51.065 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 205 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:51.185 I/dalvikvm(  205): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:51.275 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 194 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:51.405 I/dalvikvm(  194): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:51.485 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 155 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:51.605 I/dalvikvm(  155): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:51.685 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 149 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:51.875 I/dalvikvm(  149): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3
01-11 00:38:51.885 I/Process (   59): Sending signal. PID: 115 SIG: 3
01-11 00:38:51.916 I/dalvikvm(  115): threadid=3: reacting to signal 3

Answer 1

Ok the chances are you might be causing the UI thread to hang due to this heavy processing -but I could be way off without seeing any code -hint-. What you might is put the heavy stuff into a background thread seperate to the GUI thread, which you are currently running in.

Luckily Android has the AsyncTask class to help you here. Lets say (as there is not enough detail in the question) you are logging in to your app by making a web request to a server. When the user presses login you want to show some sort of processing message while doing all the legwork in your background thread.

Take a look at this article in particular the AsyncTask example http://www.vogella.de/articles/AndroidPerformance/article.html

You can see that doInBackground() is where all the heavy lifting is done and that postExecute() runs in the UI thread once again, which is where you will want to update the UI based on the result of what just happened. For example the user logged in sucessfully or an error occured while logging in.

I could go on for quite some time however this is well documented. Another good post by Google themselves can be found here http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/05/painless-threading.html