I\'ve converted my AsyncTask to an AsyncTaskLoader (mostly to deal with configuration changes). I have a TextView I am using as a progres
It's actually possible. You essentially need to subclass the AsyncTaskloader and implement a publishMessage() method, which will use a Handler to deliver the progress message to any class that implements the ProgressListener (or whatever you want to call it) interface.
Download this for an example: http://www.2shared.com/file/VW68yhZ1/SampleTaskProgressDialogFragme.html (message me if it goes offline) - this was based of http://habrahabr.ru/post/131560/