Executing a thread inside AsyncTask's doInBackground()

I have several AsyncTasks doi开发者_JAVA技巧ng network operations. I was recently asked to add, after each of these operations, another network call that invokes a remote service sending some statistics. I'd like this statistics call not to delay 'main' network calls, and so I was thinking of executing them in a thread created and started inside the AsyncTask's doInBackground(). This thread would most probably end after the doInBackground() and possibly the whole AsyncTask has ended. I tried this and it works, but I was wondering if there are side effects, such as memory leaks or similar?

Thanks ;)

Try starting a second AsyncTask in the first AsyncTasks 'onPostExecute' Method. For me this worked without any issues.

If you want to start thread in doInBackground method, you can start it in onProgressUpdate() method

Example:

protected class MyTask extends AsyncTask<Void,Integer,Void> {

        public static final int START_THREAD = -1;
        @Override
        protected void onProgressUpdate(Integer... values) {
            if(values[0] == START_THREAD){
                startThread();
            }
        }

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
        publishProgress(START_THREAD);
        return null;
    }
}