java - 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");