Name the Thread of an AsyncTask

Question

Is it possible to give a name to an AsyncTask's background thread, as for normal Threads in Java:

Thread(Runnable target, String name)  

I have seen the code of AsyncTask and the default constructor is just give a name by default

private static final ThreadFactory sThreadFactory = new ThreadFactory() {     private final AtomicInteger mCount = new AtomicInteger(1);      public Thread newThread(Runnable r) {         return new Thread(r, "AsyncTask #" + mCount.getAndIncrement());     } }; 

I want to do that, as when I debug I want to know which Asynctask is accessing a method in a helper class.

Answer 1

Try calling this from inside doInBackground():

Thread.currentThread().setName("some custom name");