Android Asynctask passing a single string

You can build AsyncTask with a constructor.

public class RemoteDataTask extends AsyncTask<String, String, Long> {

    private String data;

    public RemoteDataTask(String passedData) {
        data = passedData;
    }

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(Context... params) {
        // you can access "data" variable here.
        EntityUtils.getEntity(activity, params, new EntityGetListener() {
            @Override
            public void onGet(Entity entity) {
                viewcount = entity.getEntityStats().getViews();
            }
            @Override
            public void onError(SocializeException error) {
            }
        });
        return null;
    }
}

In the application (Activity, Service etc), you can use;

private RemoteDataTask mTask;
private void doStuff(){
    String pass = "meow"; // story.get(position).getEntity();
    mTask = new RemoteDataTask(pass);
    mTask.execute();
}

You already have this

     new RemoteDataTask().execute(pass); // assuming pass is a string

In doInbackground

     @Override
     protected Long doInBackground(String... params) {   

             String s = params[0]; // here's youre string
             ...      //rest of the code. 
     }

You can find more info @

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.html

Update

Asynctask is depecated. Should be using kotlin coroutines or rxjava or any other threading mechanism as alternatives.