Can Honeycomb Loaders solve problems with AsyncTask + UI update?

Question

Doing something in background and then updating UI is very hard to implement correctly in Android. It\'s simply badly designed. Typical example is an AsyncTask that fetches some

Answer 1

Yes, from my experience with Loader they seem to solve the common problems people have with AsyncTasks and configuration changes.

I think Google said that the fragments static library would include Loaders as well so yes, they should work backwards too when the library is released.