[android] Android: Cancel Async Task

I spent a while figuring this out, all I wanted was a simple example of how to do it, so I thought I'd post how I did it. This is some code that updates a library and has a progress dialog showing how many books have been updated and cancels when a user dismisses the dialog:

private class UpdateLibrary extends AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Boolean>{
    private ProgressDialog dialog = new ProgressDialog(Library.this);
    private int total = Library.instance.appState.getAvailableText().length;
    private int count = 0;

    //Used as handler to cancel task if back button is pressed
    private AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Boolean> updateTask = null;

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute(){
        updateTask = this;
        dialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_HORIZONTAL);
        dialog.setOnDismissListener(new OnDismissListener() {               
            @Override
            public void onDismiss(DialogInterface dialog) {
                updateTask.cancel(true);
            }
        });
        dialog.setMessage("Updating Library...");
        dialog.setMax(total);
        dialog.show();
    }

    @Override
    protected Boolean doInBackground(Void... arg0) {
            for (int i = 0; i < appState.getAvailableText().length;i++){
                if(isCancelled()){
                    break;
                }
                //Do your updating stuff here
            }
        }

    @Override
    protected void onProgressUpdate(Integer... progress){
        count += progress[0];
        dialog.setProgress(count);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Boolean finished){
        dialog.dismiss();
        if (finished)
            DialogHelper.showMessage(Str.TEXT_UPDATELIBRARY, Str.TEXT_UPDATECOMPLETED, Library.instance);
        else 
            DialogHelper.showMessage(Str.TEXT_UPDATELIBRARY,Str.TEXT_NOUPDATE , Library.instance);
    }
}

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