Real difference between AsyncTask and Thread

Question

I have been reading Android documentation (AsyncTask, Thread) and vogella tutorial about this matter, but I have doubts yet.

For example, I want to send a message fr

Answer 1

• I would prefer to Use Async Task as it will let you know when the background process gets started and over and when can I parse the response.
• Async has methods like onPreExecute and onPostExecute which will allow us to do tasks before and after calling the background tasks.