I use the android.os.Handler class to perform tasks on the background. When unit testing these, I call Looper.loop() to make the test thread wait for the background task thread to do its thing. Later, I call Looper.myLooper().quit() (also in the test thread), to allow the test thread to quit the loop and resume the testing logic.
It's all fine and dandy until I want to write more than one test method.
The problem is that Looper doesn't seem to be designed to allow quitting and restarting on the same thread, so I am forced to do all of my testing inside a single test method.
I looked into the source code of Looper, and couldn't find a way around it.
Is there any other way to test my Hander/Looper code? Or maybe some more test friendly way to write my background task class?