How to pass Context to AsyncTask?

Question

How to pass context in Async Task class which is coded in different java file from Main Activity but it called from main activity?

Below is my code:

 @Override

protected void onPostExecute(List<Movie_ModelClass> result) {
        super.onPostExecute(result);

        if (result != null) {
            Movie_Adapter movieAdapter = new Movie_Adapter(new MainActivity().getApplicationContext() , R.layout.custom_row, result);
            MainActivity ovj_main = new MainActivity();
            ovj_main.lv_main.setAdapter(movieAdapter);
        } else {
            Toast.makeText(new MainActivity().getApplicationContext() ,"No Data Found", Toast.LENGTH_LONG);

        }
        if (progressDialog.isShowing()) {
            progressDialog.dismiss();
    }

Answer 1

You could just pass a Context instance as a constructor parameter (and keep a WeakReference to it to avoid memory leaks).

For example:

public class ExampleAsyncTask extends AsyncTask {
    private WeakReference<Context> contextRef;

    public ExampleAsyncTask(Context context) {
        contextRef = new WeakReference<>(context);
    }

    @Override
    protected Object doInBackground(Object[] params) {
        // ...
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Object result) {
        Context context = contextRef.get();
        if (context != null) {
            // do whatever you'd like with context
        }
    }
}

And the execution:

new ExampleAsyncTask(aContextInstance).execute();