A typical example of the implementation of a Looper thread given by the official documentation uses Looper.prepare() and Looper.loop() and associates a Handler with the loop between these calls.
class LooperThread extends Thread {
public Handler mHandler;
public void run() {
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A HandlerThread can be used to start a thread with a Looper. This looper then can be used to create a Handler for communications with it.
HandlerThread thread = new HandlerThread("thread-name");
thread.start();
Handler handler = new Handler(thread.getLooper());
