Passing parameters to Asynctask

Question

I am using Async tasks to get string from the menu activity and load up some stuff..but i am not able to do so..Am i using it in the right way and am i passing the parameters co

Answer 1

Instead of this i would do

 private class Setup extends AsyncTask {

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(String... params) {
    String identifier = params[0];

          if (identifier.matches("abc")) {
                publishProgress(0);
                db.insert_fri();
            } else if ((identifier.matches("xyz"))) {
                publishProgress(1);
                db.insert_met();
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onProgressUpdate(Integer... i) {
        // start the song here
        if (i[0] == 0) {
            song.setLooping(true);
            song.start();
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void res) {

    }

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        // do something before execution
    }
}

and check for "identifier" before invoking the asynctask to prevent overhead of creating a AsyncTask

like this

if (!(getIntent().getExtras().isEmpty())) {
                Bundle gotid = getIntent().getExtras();
                identifier = gotid.getString("key");
               new Setup().execute(identifier);
    }