android - should you create new Async Tasks for every different call or use the same one

Question

So I have an app that will make multipe HTTP Post/Gets

E.G. Login, getThisData, getThatData, sendThis, sendThat

Is it better to have a seperate AsyncTask to handle each one

Or one async task and process them differently with a switch in onPostExecute and doInBackground

Cheers

Answer 1

Short answer is yes you should create a new AsncTask for each call.

And if you interested, the long answer is;

According to the Android's Asynctask documentation,

• The goal of the AsyncTask is to take care of thread management for you and you should not worry about the threading mechanisms.
• The Android Platform handles the pool of threads to manage the asynchronous operations. AsyncTasks are like consumables. The task can be executed only once (an exception will be thrown if a second execution is attempted.)

Happy asynchronous coding! :-)