start async task from onhandleintent

Question

Should we start async task from within onHandleIntent() method of IntentService? I read that onHandleIntent() runs in worker thr

Answer 1

AsyncTask class is used to provide a mechanism to do achieve multithreading, so your event thread wont get hanged, but as you are using service, you should not use, AsyncTask in the Service, instead you can use, threads, if some long running task is to executed, in the Service.