What to do with AsyncTask in onPause()?

Question

I\'m using an AsyncTask in my activity. Looks like:

public class MyActivity {
    private AsyncTask mTask;

    private void doSomethingCool() {
        mTas         


        

Answer 1

if you really want to run it all of the time: I´m using a Singleton Pattern in my Class extended from AsyncTask and call this in onResume:

@Override
protected void onResume() {
super.onResume();
// connection observer
if (!(AsyncTaskConnectionObserver.getInstance().getStatus() == AsyncTask.Status.RUNNING)) {
    AsyncTaskConnectionObserver.getInstance().execute();
}
}

I simply do nothing in onDestroy (yes, this is called when you´re rotating!) and this task really runs forever...

The Singleton looks like this (only structure, but I think you´ll get it):

public class AsyncTaskConnectionObserver extends AsyncTask {

private AsyncTaskConnectionObserver(){
super();
}
/**
 * SingletonHolder is loaded on the first execution of
 * Singleton.getInstance() or the first access to SingletonHolder.INSTANCE,
 * not before.
 */
private static class SingletonHolder {
    public static final AsyncTaskConnectionObserver INSTANCE = new AsyncTaskConnectionObserver();
}

public static AsyncTaskConnectionObserver getInstance() {
    return SingletonHolder.INSTANCE;
}

}