Estoy teniendo algunos problemas para usarAsyncTask como nunca lo he visto antes y no tengo ni idea de lo que estoy haciendo con él.

Básicamente estoy obteniendo una fuerza de cierre porque estoy tratando de ejecutar la conexión en una clase principal. ¿Podría alguien posiblemente ayudarme a agregar?AsyncTask en el código:

package com.smarte.smartipcontrol;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;

public class IPControl extends Activity {

  private Socket socket;
  private String serverIpAddress;
  private static final int REDIRECTED_SERVERPORT = 32;
  public PrintWriter out;
  public BufferedReader in ;

    @Override
      public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        // Get the message from the intent
        Intent intent = getIntent();
        serverIpAddress = intent.getStringExtra(IPEntry.ACTUALSMARTIP);
        createConnection();

      }

  public void getModel(View view) {
    try {
      out.println("[m\r\n");
      //System.out.print("root\r\n");
      while (! in .ready());
      String textStatus = readBuffer();

    } catch (IOException e) {}
  }

  public void createConnection() {
    try {
      InetAddress serverAddr = InetAddress.getByName(serverIpAddress);
      socket = new Socket(serverAddr, REDIRECTED_SERVERPORT);
    } catch (UnknownHostException e1) {
      e1.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e1) {
      e1.printStackTrace();
    }
    try {
      out = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream())), true); in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
      while (! in .ready());
      readBuffer();
      out.println("root\r\n");
      //System.out.print("root\r\n");
      while (! in .ready());
      readBuffer();
      out.println("root\r\n");
      //System.out.print("root\r\n");
      while (! in .ready());
      readBuffer();
    } catch (IOException e) {}


    //R.id.textStatus
  }

  private String readBuffer() throws IOException {
    String msg = "";

    while ( in .ready()) {
      msg = msg + (char) in .read();
    }
    //System.out.print(msg);
    if (msg.indexOf("SNX_COM> ") != -1) return msg.substring(0, msg.indexOf("SNX_COM> "));
    else return msg;
  }

}