Handler vs AsyncTask

Question

I\'m confused as to when one would choose AsyncTask over a Handler. Say I have some code I want to run every n seconds which will update the UI. Why would I choose one ove

Answer 1

doInBackground - basically does work in another thread. onPostExecute - posts the results on the UI thread and it is internally sending message to handler of main thread. Main UI thread already has a looper and handler associated with it.

So basically,if you have to do some background task,use AsyncTask. But ultimately,if something needs to be updated on UI,it will be using main thread's handler.