should you create new Async Tasks for every different call or use the same one

android, android-asynctask, http

Solution

Short answer is yes you should create a new AsncTask for each call.

And if you interested, the long answer is;

According to the Android's Asynctask documentation,

- The goal of the AsyncTask is to take care of thread management for you and you should not worry about the threading mechanisms.

- The Android Platform handles the pool of threads to manage the asynchronous operations. AsyncTasks are like consumables. The task can be executed only once (an exception will be thrown if a second execution is attempted.)

Happy asynchronous coding! :-)

Problem

So I have an app that will make multipe HTTP Post/Gets E.G. Login, getThisData, getThatData, sendThis, sendThat Is it better to have a seperate AsyncTask to handle each one Or one async task and process them differently with a switch in `onPostExecute` and `doInBackground` Cheers

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