Naming AsyncTask for profiling in Android [duplicate]

Question

Is there any way to name AsyncTasks in Android for the purposes of profiling? As of now, the AsyncTasks only shows up in the profiler as

[N] AsyncTask #1
[M] AsyncTask #2
[K] AsyncTask #3
[L] AsyncTask #4
etc...

What I would like to do is to be able to name them in some way to easily identify them in the trace file.

Answer 1

You can rename current thread from code that run in the thread. For example, add next code in your doInBackground() function:

String oldName = Thread.currentThread().getName();
Thread.currentThread().setName("MY-ASYNC");
...   
<your code here>
...
Thread.currentThread().setName(oldName);