Question

i’ve an progress circle that is set inside an AsyncTask. It shows for about a second as the asynctask is executing, then disappears. once the task is completed if i press the back button the circle shows for a long time. why is this?

private class AsyncGetRota extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Void> {

        ProgressDialog progressDialog;


        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute()
        {
            progressDialog= ProgressDialog.show(NfcscannerActivity.this, 
                    "Connecting to Server"," retrieving rota...", true);

            //do initialization of required objects objects here                
        };      


        @Override
        protected Void doInBackground(String... params) {



            try {
                Log.e(TAG, "inside doInBackground");
                rotaArray = nfcscannerapplication.loginWebservice.getRota(params[0], params[1]);

                cancel(true);



            } catch (Exception e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return null;

        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(Void result)
        {
            super.onPostExecute(result);
            progressDialog.dismiss();
        };



    }

[update]

getRota.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    Log.e(TAG, "onclicked getRota");

                    String[] params = new String[]{"36", "18-09-2012"}; 
                    AsyncGetRota agr = new AsyncGetRota();
                    agr.execute(params);

                    for(int i = 0; i < 60; i++){

                        if(agr.isCancelled() == true){
                            Log.e(TAG, "asyncTask is finished");
                            break;
                        }


                        try {
                            Thread.sleep(1000);
                        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                            e.printStackTrace();
                        }
                    }//end of for loop

                    Intent intent = new Intent(NfcscannerActivity.this,
                            GetRota.class);

                    Bundle b = new Bundle();
                    b.putSerializable("rotaArray", rotaArray);

                    intent.putExtra("rotaArrayBundle", b);
                    startActivity(intent);

                }// end of onclick
            });

Answer 1

...
new MyAsyncTask().execute(string);
...
}

class MyAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Whatever > {
    ...
    @Override
    protected Whatever doInBackground(String... params) {

       Log.e(TAG, "inside doInBackground");
       rotaArray = nfcscannerapplication.loginWebservice.getRota(params[0],       params[1]);
       return rotaArray;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Whatever result)
    {
        super.onPostExecute(result);
        if(progressDialog != null)
        progressDialog.dismiss();

        Intent intent = new Intent(NfcscannerActivity.this, GetRota.class);
        Bundle b = new Bundle();
        b.putSerializable("rotaArray", result);

        intent.putExtra("rotaArrayBundle", b);
        startActivity(intent);
    }
}

You should let the execution continue after you start the AsyncTask, and not block it using some loop or something..