Declaring AsyncTask types

AsyncTask is a generically typed class that exposes three generic type parameters:

abstract class AsyncTask<Params, Progress, Result>

In order to use a generic type, we must provide one type argument per type parameter that was declared for the generic type.

Note

The generic type class provides a way to re-use the same generic algorithms for different input types. A generic type could have one or more type parameters.

When we declare an AsyncTask subclass, we'll specify the types for Params, Progress, and Result; for example, if we want to pass a String parameter to doInBackground, report progress as a Float, and return a Boolean result, we would declare our AsyncTask subclass as follows:

    public class MyTask extends AsyncTask<String, Float, Boolean>

If we don't need to pass any parameters, or don't want to report progress, a good type to use for those parameters is java.lang.Void, which signals our intent clearly, because Void is an uninstantiable class...