Question

I have an activity for a splash screen which has only an image in the layout. I want to make some Http calls in the background while the splash screen is displayed in the UI thread. But when I execute the AsyncTask the image in the layout is not displayed. I get only a blank screen leading me to believe that the layout itself is not loaded. Below is the activity code.

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_splash_screen);
        String authReqResponse;
        Toast errorDisplayToast = new Toast(this);

        AuthorizationRequest authReq = new AuthorizationRequest();
        authReq.execute(new Void[] {});

        try {
            authReqResponse = authReq.get();
            if(authReqResponse.equalsIgnoreCase(GeneralConstants.AUTH_FAILED_ERROR)) {
                errorDisplayToast.makeText(SplashScreen.this, R.string.request_auth_failed_error_message, Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
                errorDisplayToast.show();
            } else if(authReqResponse.equalsIgnoreCase(null)) {
                errorDisplayToast.makeText(SplashScreen.this, R.string.networkErrorMessage, Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
                errorDisplayToast.show();
            } else {
                GeneralConstants.REQ_TOKEN = authReqResponse;
                Intent startARIntent = new Intent(SplashScreen.this, MainActivity.class);
                startActivity(startARIntent);
                finish();
            }
        } catch(Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
}

Answer 1

here

try {
       authReqResponse = authReq.get();///<<get method of AsyncTask

           //your code....

as doc as about AsyncTask. get (long timeout, TimeUnit unit) :

Waits if necessary for at most the given time for the computation to
complete, and then retrieves its result.

means if you use this method for getting result back from AsyncTask to your UI main Thread then it will stop your main UI execution until result not returned form AsyncTask’s doInBackground method

solution is use onPostExecute for updating UI elements when AsyncTask execution complete