“No enclosing instance of type” error while calling method from another class in Android

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In terms of the actual error here, if parseYouTubeAndYahoo class is a non-static inner class inside of your Activity, then you need an instance of the enclosing class in order to instantiate the inner class. So, you’ll need:

MainActivity myActivity = new MainActivity();
MainActivity.parseYouTubeAndYahoo asyncTask = myActivity.new parseYouTubeAndYahoo();

However….

You really shouldn’t be instantiating non-static inner classes of your Activities from outside of the Activity because in order to instantiate a non-static innner class, you have to actually instantiate the enclosing class, which, in this case, is the Activity. Activities are meant to be started, not instantiated via new. If you have an AsyncTask that you’d like to use in different places, then create a new top-level class that extends from AsyncTask.

(For an example of creating reusable AsyncTasks, see: https://github.com/levinotik/ReusableAsyncTask)

Note that the syntax you’ve tried to use WOULD work if you needed to grab a static nested class. This is because in such a case, the outer class is really just acting as a namespace, but the nested class, because its static, does not actually need a reference to an instance of the outer class. Thus:

OuterClass.StaticNestedClass nestedObject =
     new OuterClass.StaticNestedClass();

is the proper syntax for getting an instance of a static nested class.

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