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

To avoid this you can use the answer givin here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2124731/327011

But if you need to destroy the activity (different layouts for portrait and landscape) you can make the AsyncTask a public class (Read here why it shouldn't be private Android: AsyncTask recommendations: private class or public class?) and then create a method setActivity to set the reference to the current activity whenever it is destroyed/created.

You can see an example here: Android AsyncTask in external class