AsyncTask and error handling on Android

Question

I\'m converting my code from using Handler to AsyncTask. The latter is great at what it does - asynchronous updates and handling of results in the

Answer 1

Personally, I will use this approach. You can just catch the exceptions and print out the stack trace if you need the info.

make your task in background return a boolean value.

it's like this:

    @Override
                protected Boolean doInBackground(String... params) {
                    return readXmlFromWeb(params[0]);
         }

        @Override
                protected void onPostExecute(Boolean result) {

              if(result){
              // no error
               }
              else{
                // error handling
               }
}