Question

I currently have an asyncTask which on preexecute begins a loading bar, in background send something to a server, and on post execute dismisses the dialog and enables a button. However, my post execute is not executing due to doInBackground returning null. I’m trying to figure out what I can do do get the postExecute to run. any ideas? thanks

code:

class DatabaseAsync extends AsyncTask<Void,Void,Void>{
        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute(){
            dialog = ProgressDialog.show(MainFeedActivity.this, null, "Posting...");
        }

        @Override
        protected Void doInBackground(Void... arg0) {
            Log.d(TAG, "send to databse");
            SendToDatabase();
            Log.d(TAG, "sent to database - DONE");

            //dialog.dismiss();

            //sendButton.setEnabled(true);

            return null;
        }

        protected void onPostExecute(){
            Log.d(TAG, "p execute");
            dialog.dismiss();
            sendButton.setEnabled(true);
            Log.d(TAG, "done executing");
        }

    }

Answer 1

It is completely Ok to return null from doInBackground() in your case. Just make sure onPostExecute() looks like this:

@Override
protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
    Log.d(TAG, "p execute");
    dialog.dismiss();
    sendButton.setEnabled(true);
    Log.d(TAG, "done executing");
}