AsyncTask thread still there after execute, is that normal?

Question

when I use AsyncTasks checking in the DDMS, the thread persist in memory as waiting thread after the onPostExecute() method, is that normal?. Here is a simplified Activity t

Answer 1

Both the answers provided here are correct. In addition to that, the status of such threads in the pool will be "wait". This phenomenon could also be observed when using libraries like Okhttp which use connection pool for network operations.