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Asked: 2026-05-25T12:13:29+00:00

I have implemented Push Notification in my appliction. Once the push message is received

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I have implemented Push Notification in my appliction. Once the push message is received I call a webservice with the help of AsyncTask. This works fine when the application is being used or is in the memory. But if I stop the application from settings and then if the message is pushed to the device, there is an exception such as “sending message to a Handler on a dead thread”. This is probably since the app is not live.

Can someone let me know if its alright to actually remove AsyncTask from push notification receiver and just handle the message?

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Sunil

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  1. Editorial Team

    IMO AsyncTask should be only used as a helper for background tasks related to Activities (that is, UI).

    In your case I would use an IntentService, it is a Service that is prepared to execute background task. So:

    1. A new notification is pushed to the device.
    2. You receive the notification in your broadcast receiver.
    3. You fire a IntentService to perform synchronization against the WS
    4. The IntentService does its job, when finishes it raises a broadcast event.

    In your Activity attach a broadcast receiver for the broadcast in step 4. This way your UI gets notified if it’s present, else nothing bad happens. Optionally you can register a default broadcast receiver in your Manifest to handle the broadcast of step 4 and, for example, display a status bar notification.

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