Executing Multiple AsyncTask’s Parallely

This is how I do that:

if( Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB ) {
    new MyAsyncTask().executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.THREAD_POOL_EXECUTOR);
} else {
    new MyAsyncTask().execute();
}

where MyAsyncTask is regular AsyncTask subclass. Or you can wrap this all in helper class:

class TaskHelper {

    public static <P, T extends AsyncTask<P, ?, ?>> void execute(T task) {
        execute(task, (P[]) null);
    }

    @SuppressLint("NewApi")
    public static <P, T extends AsyncTask<P, ?, ?>> void execute(T task, P... params) {
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
            task.executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.THREAD_POOL_EXECUTOR, params);
        } else {
            task.execute(params);
        }
    }
}

and then just do:

TaskHelper.execute( new MyTask() );

or

TaskHelper.execute( new MyTask(), args );

or

TaskHelper.execute( new MyTask(constructorParams), args );

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