点击图标，首先会进入ActivityThread的main方法，这里是android程序的入口，如下所示：
public static void main(String[] args) {
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Looper.prepareMainLooper();//创建Looper和MessageQueue对象，用于处理主线程的消息
ActivityThread thread = new ActivityThread();
thread.attach(false);//建立Binder通道 (创建新线程)
if (sMainThreadHandler == null) {
sMainThreadHandler = thread.getHandler();
}
Trace.traceEnd(Trace.TRACE_TAG_ACTIVITY_MANAGER);
Looper.loop();
//如果能执行下面方法，说明应用崩溃或者是退出了...
throw new RuntimeException("Main thread loop unexpectedly exited");
}
Activity的生命周期都是由Handler来完成的。Looper死循环指的是Looper.loop（）方法里无限循环取出消息。而应用卡死指的是应用ANR，即应用无响应。先看看loop方法
public static void loop() {
final Looper me = myLooper();
if (me == null) {
throw new RuntimeException("No Looper; Looper.prepare() wasn't called on this thread.");
}
final MessageQueue queue = me.mQueue;
// Make sure the identity of this thread is that of the local process,
// and keep track of what that identity token actually is.
Binder.clearCallingIdentity();
final long ident = Binder.clearCallingIdentity();
// Allow overriding a threshold with a system prop. e.g.
// adb shell 'setprop log.looper.1000.main.slow 1 && stop && start'
final int thresholdOverride =
SystemProperties.getInt("log.looper."
+ Process.myUid() + "."
+ Thread.currentThread().getName()
+ ".slow", 0);
boolean slowDeliveryDetected = false;
for (;;) {
Message msg = queue.next(); // might block 从消息队列中取出消息
if (msg == null) {
// No message indicates that the message queue is quitting.
return;
}
// This must be in a local variable, in case a UI event sets the logger
final Printer logging = me.mLogging;
if (logging != null) {
logging.println(">>>>> Dispatching to " + msg.target + " " +
msg.callback + ": " + msg.what);
}
final long traceTag = me.mTraceTag;
long slowDispatchThresholdMs = me.mSlowDispatchThresholdMs;
long slowDeliveryThresholdMs = me.mSlowDeliveryThresholdMs;
if (thresholdOverride > 0) {
slowDispatchThresholdMs = thresholdOverride;
slowDeliveryThresholdMs = thresholdOverride;
}
final boolean logSlowDelivery = (slowDeliveryThresholdMs > 0) && (msg.when > 0);
final boolean logSlowDispatch = (slowDispatchThresholdMs > 0);
final boolean needStartTime = logSlowDelivery || logSlowDispatch;
final boolean needEndTime = logSlowDispatch;
if (traceTag != 0 && Trace.isTagEnabled(traceTag)) {
Trace.traceBegin(traceTag, msg.target.getTraceName(msg));
}
final long dispatchStart = needStartTime ? SystemClock.uptimeMillis() : 0;
final long dispatchEnd;
try {
msg.target.dispatchMessage(msg);//消息分发出去
dispatchEnd = needEndTime ? SystemClock.uptimeMillis() : 0;
} finally {
if (traceTag != 0) {
Trace.traceEnd(traceTag);
}
}
if (logSlowDelivery) {
if (slowDeliveryDetected) {
if ((dispatchStart - msg.when) <= 10) {
Slog.w(TAG, "Drained");
slowDeliveryDetected = false;
}
} else {
if (showSlowLog(slowDeliveryThresholdMs, msg.when, dispatchStart, "delivery",
msg)) {
// Once we write a slow delivery log, suppress until the queue drains.
slowDeliveryDetected = true;
}
}
}
if (logSlowDispatch) {
showSlowLog(slowDispatchThresholdMs, dispatchStart, dispatchEnd, "dispatch", msg);
}
if (logging != null) {
logging.println("<<<<< Finished to " + msg.target + " " + msg.callback);
}
// Make sure that during the course of dispatching the
// identity of the thread wasn't corrupted.
final long newIdent = Binder.clearCallingIdentity();
if (ident != newIdent) {
Log.wtf(TAG, "Thread identity changed from 0x"
+ Long.toHexString(ident) + " to 0x"
+ Long.toHexString(newIdent) + " while dispatching to "
+ msg.target.getClass().getName() + " "
+ msg.callback + " what=" + msg.what);
}
msg.recycleUnchecked();
}
}
上述可以看出for(;;)是一个无限循环，不停地轮询消息队列并取出消息，然后将消息分发出去（简单的描述）。Android应用程序就是通过这个方法来达到及时响应用户操作。这个过程并不会导致ANR，ANR指应用程序在一定时间内没有得到响应或者响应时间太长。在主线程的MessageQueue没有消息时，便阻塞在loop的queue.next()中的nativePollOnce()方法里，此时主线程会释放CPU资源进入休眠状态。因为没有消息，即不需要响应程序，便不会出现程序无响应（ANR）现象。
总结：loop无限循环用于取出消息并将消息分发出去，没有消息时会阻塞在queue.next()里的nativePollOnce()方法里，并释放CPU资源进入休眠。Android的绝大部分操作都是通过Handler机制来完成的，如果没有消息，则不需要程序去响应，就不会有ANR。ANR一般是消息的处理过程中耗时太长导致没有及时响应用户操作。
