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

This is the type of thing that leads me to always prevent my Activity from being destroyed/recreated on orientation change.

To do so add this to your tag in your manifest file:

android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden" 

And override onConfigurationChanged in your Activity class:

@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(final Configuration newConfig)
{
    // Ignore orientation change to keep activity from restarting
    super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
}