Async issues when creating translator app with fragments & Microsoft API

Question

I'm creating a translator app for android using fragments (because I have tabs).

I found some good tutorials for translation with Microsoft's API, but none of them worked, until I found this.

As an activity it works, when I change it to a fragment, it doesn't.

Here's the code after a small change:

    public class HomeFragment extends Fragment 
    {
    TextView text;
    String translatedText;
    View rootView;

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
            Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_home, container, false);

        text=(TextView)rootView.findViewById(R.id.translatedtext);
        text.setText("<This text should change after translation has occurred in AsyncTask>");
         new MyAsyncTask() { 
            protected void onPostExecute(Boolean result) {
                text.setText(translatedText);
            }
        }.execute();
        return rootView;
    }

    class MyAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Boolean> 
    {
        @Override
        protected Boolean doInBackground(Void... arg0) {
            Translate.setClientId("MicrosoftTranslatorJavaAPI");
            Translate.setClientSecret("0VHbhXQnJrZ7OwVqcoX/PDZlyLJS9co3cVev1TPr8iM=");
            try {
                translatedText = Translate.execute("I should probably set this to something a little less profane", Language.ENGLISH, Language.FRENCH);
            } catch(Exception e) {
                translatedText = e.toString();
            }
            return true;
        }           
    }
}

The XML currently is just a simple TextView (like the Github example).

What do I have to change to make asynctask work?

Answer 1

I figured the solution weeks ago, but just now thought of sharing this. The solution was somewhat simple and right under my nose. The API microsoft-translator-java-api-0.6.1-jar-with-dependencies in my project, I added manually and it was just "floating" inside my project folder. When I inserted it into the libs folder manually, it then appeared inside Android Private Libraries. Now the translation worked!