Android AsyncTask context behavior

Question

I\'ve been working with AsyncTasks in Android and I am dealing with an issue.

Take a simple example, an Activity with one AsyncTask. The task on the background does

Answer 1

If you only need a context and won't use it for ui stuff you can simply pass the ApplicationContext to your AsyncTask.You often need the context for system resources, for example.

Don't try to update the UI from an AsyncTask and try to avoid handling configuration changes yourself as it can get messy. In order to update the UI you could register a Broadcast receiver and send a Broadcast.

You should also have the AsyncTask as a separate public class from the activity as mentioned above, it makes testing a lot easier. Unfortunately Android programming often reinforces bad practices and the official examples are not helping.