Apps Unable to create an ANR message

[ydn_dev]

Hi,

I'm trying to create an ANR message by having a loop counting from 0 to Integer.MAX_VALUE inside a button click handler. I'm however, not getting ANR message. The UI just hangs till the loop terminates( for around 40-45 seconds). I'm running this on emulator. Am I missing something here?

 

[miXer]

Well, you are running a long lasting job in the ui thread, so of course its going to hang. If you want to do something visible with each number, you need to run the job in a separate thread. Painless Threading | Android Developers

 

[ydn_dev]

miXer,

I understand why the UI hangs. Infact I put counting loop deliberately to make the UI hang. What I could not understand was why the emulator was not displaying 'Application Not Responding' dialog. Apparently, the dialog appears only if the user tries to perform some action on the UI like editing a field or clicking a button when the UI is unreponsive. If I do not perform any UI action, the dialog does not appear.

Thanks
ydn_dev