Question

I am sending a usage log such as button click or page navigation to my server via http post, Right now i am using the asynctask doInBackground, but my doInBackground method will not be finish until server respond.

Question is: Is there a better to just send the http post and ignore the response from server. But I need to make sure the server records the log.

private static class Async extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
        String url = "server url";
        DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        httpclient.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(AuthScope.ANY, new UsernamePasswordCredentials("username", "password"));
        HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);
        try {
            // Add your data
            List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);
            nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("DeviceOS", "Android"));
            nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("OSVersion", osVersion));
            nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("DeviceManufacturer", manufacturer));
            nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("Model", model));
            // and some more
            httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));

            // Execute HTTP Post Request
            ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
            String responseBody = httpclient.execute(httppost, responseHandler);

        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
            // Error msg will be here = e.getMessage();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // Error msg will be here = e.getMessage();
        }
        return null;
    }
}

}

Answer 1

try this..

Thread r = new Thread(){
public void run(){
  //post request
}

}.start();