Asynctask getting stuck

Issue

I am trying to develop an Android application. Every time when application starts, it has to fetch some details from a server. I have used an asynctask for it and I am calling it in the onCreate method in android. It works perfectly when the server is running and but when the server is not running I don't want my application to get hang waiting for a time out and finding out that the server is not running. What is a better way to implement ? In my present method the application is stuck till the time out is happening.

Solution

I was using asyncTask.execute().get(); when I changed to asyncTask.execute() It works fine

Answered By - jgm