Question

I have a public class FriendMaps extends MapActivity that gets called from a menu item when selected, and at the end of that I have private abstract class DownloadFilesTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> in there I do some server calls and put data into local arrays etc.

But in my public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) of the FriendMaps activity I call new DownloadFilesTask().execute(); and get the following error:

Error: Cannot instantiate the type
FriendMaps.DownloadFilesTask

From the documentation:

AsyncTask must be subclassed to be used.

That would be accomplished DownloadFilesTask extends AsyncTask there.

The task instance must be created on the UI thread

Maybe this is where I am confused? To my understanding the UI thread is the current activity being displayed – if so then the onCreate of the FriendMaps activity is the correct place to execute();

If full code spinets are required for further help, please comment and I’ll add where needed.

Answer 1

You can’t instantiate it because you declared DownloadFilesTask as an abstract class, that, by definition, cannot be instantiated