Send Value From onPostExecute() to Activity is always NULL

Question

I created this class:

public class GetAddressPositionTask extends
        AsyncTask<String, Integer, LatLng> {
    //...
}

It has the below function in it:

@Override
    public void onPostExecute(LatLng result) {
        Log.i("GEOCODE", result.toString());

        super.onPostExecute(result);

        Intent i = new Intent(this.mainContxt , MapsActivity.class);

        i.putExtra("latlng" , result);

        i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);

        this.mainContxt.startActivity(i);
    }

I am trying to send data to the Activity called MapsActivity from the onPostExecute method.

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In MapsActivity I have before onCreate this:

LatLng position = new LatLng(34.6767, 33.04455);

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My onCreate:

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_maps);

            if (getIntent() != null) {
                Intent intent = getIntent();

                if (getIntent().getExtras().getParcelable("latlng")!= null) {
                    position = getIntent().getExtras().getParcelable("latlng");
                }
                else {
                    Log.d("NULL?", "position is empty!");
                }
            } else {
            }

            MapFragment mapFragment = (MapFragment) getFragmentManager()
                    .findFragmentById(R.id.
                            map);
            mapFragment.getMapAsync(this);
    }

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This is my onMapReady that created the pin with the position that I initialized and when you type an address and press the search button, it calls the above class that has the onPost function and trying to pin a location in the map if the position is not null.

@Override
    public void onMapReady(final GoogleMap map) {
        map.setMyLocationEnabled(true);
        map.moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngZoom(position, 13));
        CameraUpdate zoom = CameraUpdateFactory.zoomTo(15);
        map.animateCamera(zoom);

        map.addMarker(new MarkerOptions()
                .title("Shop")
                .snippet("Is this the right location?")
                .position(position))
                .setDraggable(true);

        // map.setInfoWindowAdapter(new PopupAdapter(getLayoutInflater()));
        map.setOnInfoWindowClickListener(this);
        map.setOnMarkerDragListener(this);

        ImageButton search = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.search);

        final EditText searchaddress = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.locationsearch);

        search.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                //FIND LOCATION BY ADDRESS

                if (searchaddress.getText().toString() != null && !searchaddress.getText().toString().isEmpty()) {

                    new GetAddressPositionTask(getApplicationContext()).execute(searchaddress.getText().toString());

                    map.moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngZoom(position, 13));
                    CameraUpdate zoom = CameraUpdateFactory.zoomTo(15);
                    map.animateCamera(zoom);

                    //Marker marker = null;
                    map.clear();
                    //marker.setPosition(position);
                    map.addMarker(new MarkerOptions()
                            .title("Shop")
                            .snippet("Is this the right location?")
                            .position(position))
                            .setDraggable(true);

                    // map.setInfoWindowAdapter(new PopupAdapter(getLayoutInflater()));
                    map.setOnInfoWindowClickListener(MapsActivity.this);
                    map.setOnMarkerDragListener(MapsActivity.this);
                } else {
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Please enter an address!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                }
            }
        });
    }

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The process I do is open MapsActivity, then type a correct address and trying to display it. The result is that the position doesn't being changed BUT i don't get in logcat the message NULL?﹕ position is empty! after clicking the button.

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This is the logcat from the first time I navigate to MapsActivity and then click a button that calls the class:

02-24 20:55:35.133    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all E/Spinner﹕ setPopupBackgroundDrawable: incompatible spinner mode; ignoring...
02-24 20:55:35.143    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all E/Spinner﹕ setPopupBackgroundDrawable: incompatible spinner mode; ignoring...
02-24 20:55:35.143    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all E/Spinner﹕ setPopupBackgroundDrawable: incompatible spinner mode; ignoring...
02-24 20:55:35.223    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all I/Choreographer﹕ Skipped 47 frames!  The application may be doing too much work on its main thread.
02-24 20:55:36.775    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all I/Timeline﹕ Timeline: Activity_launch_request id:guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all time:42579264
02-24 20:55:36.865    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all I/x﹕ Making Creator dynamically
02-24 20:55:37.265    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all I/Google Maps Android API﹕ Google Play services client version: 6587000
02-24 20:55:37.285    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all I/Google Maps Android API﹕ Google Play services package version: 6776034
02-24 20:55:38.406    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all I/dalvikvm﹕ Could not find method android.content.pm.PackageManager.getPackageInstaller, referenced from method com.google.android.gms.common.ew.c
02-24 20:55:38.406    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all W/dalvikvm﹕ VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 441: Landroid/content/pm/PackageManager;.getPackageInstaller ()Landroid/content/pm/PackageInstaller;
02-24 20:55:38.406    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all D/dalvikvm﹕ VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x000f
02-24 20:55:39.117    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all D/NULL?﹕ position is empty!
02-24 20:55:39.377    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all I/Choreographer﹕ Skipped 57 frames!  The application may be doing too much work on its main thread.
02-24 20:55:39.517    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all I/libblt_hw﹕ Library opened (handle = 0, fd = 100)
02-24 20:55:39.788    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all I/Timeline﹕ Timeline: Activity_idle id: android.os.BinderProxy@424fec18 time:42582274
02-24 20:55:41.970    5907-5912/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all I/dalvikvm﹕ Jit: resizing JitTable from 4096 to 8192
02-24 20:55:47.946    5907-6133/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all I/GEOCODE_background﹕ lat/lng: (64.963051,-19.020835)
02-24 20:55:47.946    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all I/GEOCODE﹕ lat/lng: (64.963051,-19.020835)
02-24 20:55:47.946    5907-5907/guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all I/Timeline﹕ Timeline: Activity_launch_request id:guide_me_for_all.guide_me_for_all time:42590434

Answer 1

some bit confusing code and explanation,

Lets go with step wise.

Step 1: Update your MapsActivity's onCreate()

Like,

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_maps);

    MapFragment mapFragment = (MapFragment) getFragmentManager()
                .findFragmentById(R.id.map);
    mapFragment.getMapAsync(this);
}

As here Intent is not required as you are only calling MapsActivity within same MapsActivity . We will update map in onPostExecute() of Activity then no need to start Activity again.

Step 2: Create Constructor for GetAddressPositionTask with GoogleMap map parameter to update your map position in onPostExecute() of GetAddressPositionTask . And onPostExecute()

Like,

public class GetAddressPositionTask extends
        AsyncTask<String, Integer, LatLng> {

  GoogleMap googleMap;
  LatLng mapPosition;

  GetAddressPositionTask(GoogleMap map, LatLng position)
  {
   googleMap = map;
   mapPosition = position;
  }
    //...
@Override
    public void onPostExecute(LatLng result) {

     if(result != null)
     {
       Log.i("GEOCODE", result.toString());
       mapPosition =  result;

        googleMap.clear();
        googleMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions()
                            .title("Shop")
                            .snippet("Is this the right location?")
                            .position(mapPosition))
                            .setDraggable(true);
      }
   }
}

Step 3: How the search Button's onClick() look like, No extra code required,

public void onClick(View v) {
   //FIND LOCATION BY ADDRESS

   if (searchaddress.getText().toString() != null && !searchaddress.getText().toString().isEmpty()) {

          GetAddressPositionTask addressTask = new GetAddressPositionTask(map, position);
          addressTask.execute(searchaddress.getText().toString());

  } else {
          Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Please enter an address!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
  }
}