asynchronous - How to use AsyncTask in Services in Android?

I am trying to run below code it gives exception saying:

 java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start service com.example.testfeeds.UpdateWidgetService@410a33c8 with Intent {  cmp=com.example.testfeeds/.UpdateWidgetService (has extras) }: android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException

which i understand that new version of Android won't allow network operations in main thread. People suggested me to use Async Task
but I don't know how to use that. Can someone show me in below code?

Thanks in advance

public class WidgetService extends Service {
/*

 * So pretty simple just defining the Adapter of the listview
 * here Adapter is ListProvider
 * */

/*@Override
public RemoteViewsFactory onGetViewFactory(Intent intent) {
    int appWidgetId = intent.getIntExtra(
            AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_ID,
            AppWidgetManager.INVALID_APPWIDGET_ID);


    return (new ListProvider(this.getApplicationContext(), intent));
}*/

public static int numberOfItems=0;
  //numberOfItems=0;
    private static  String LOG = "testwidgets";
    ArrayList feedsPubDate;
      @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    @Override
      public void onStart(Intent intent, int startId) {

        Log.i(LOG, "Called");
        // Create some random data
        feedsPubDate=new ArrayList(); 
        AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(this .getApplicationContext());
        int[] allWidgetIds = intent
            .getIntArrayExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_IDS);
        ComponentName thisWidget = new ComponentName(getApplicationContext(), WidgetProvider.class);
        int[] allWidgetIds2 = appWidgetManager.getAppWidgetIds(thisWidget);
        Log.w(LOG, "From Intent" + String.valueOf(allWidgetIds.length));
        Log.w(LOG, "Direct" + String.valueOf(allWidgetIds2.length));

        for (int widgetId : allWidgetIds) {
          // Create some random data
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 

              RemoteViews remoteViews = new RemoteViews(this.getApplicationContext().getPackageName(),
              R.layout.widget_layout);
          Log.d("numberOfItems intially", String.valueOf(numberOfItems));
              try {
                numberOfItems=doTestFeed();
            } catch (MalformedURLException e) {

                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (ParseException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
          // Set the text
          remoteViews.setTextColor(R.id.empty_view,Color.WHITE);
          remoteViews.setTextViewText(R.id.empty_view,"  "+ String.valueOf(numberOfItems));
          Log.w(LOG, String.valueOf(numberOfItems));

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

          // Register an onClickListener
          Intent clickIntent = new Intent(this.getApplicationContext(),
              WidgetProvider.class);
          clickIntent.setAction(AppWidgetManager.ACTION_APPWIDGET_UPDATE);
          clickIntent.putExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_IDS,
              allWidgetIds);
          PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getApplicationContext(), 0, clickIntent,
              PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

          remoteViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.empty_view, pendingIntent);
          appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(widgetId, remoteViews);
        }
        stopSelf();
        super.onStart(intent, startId);

      }




    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return null;
    }


    int doTestFeed() throws MalformedURLException, ParseException
    {  
        Log.d("msg"," in do test feed");

        InputStream is = null;
        int x = 0;
        URL myURL = new URL("http://yunn.yu.edu.jo/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=55&layout=blog&Itemid=104&format=feed&type=rss");
        try {
            URLConnection conn = myURL.openConnection();
             is = conn.getInputStream();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        XmlPullParserFactory pullParserFactory;
        try {
            pullParserFactory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();
            XmlPullParser parser = pullParserFactory.newPullParser();
                parser.setFeature(XmlPullParser.FEATURE_PROCESS_NAMESPACES, false);
                parser.setInput(is, null);
                Log.d("msg","before making parsing");
                x=parseXML(parser);
                Log.d("msg","after making parsing");
        } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        Log.d("msg"," done testing");
        return x;
    }
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    @SuppressLint("SimpleDateFormat")
    private int parseXML(XmlPullParser parser) throws XmlPullParserException,IOException, ParseException

    {
        Log.d("msg"," in parser");
        int eventType = parser.getEventType();
        int getElement=0;
        String pubDate=null;
        while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT){
            String tagName = null;
            switch (eventType){
            //----------------------------------//
            case XmlPullParser.START_DOCUMENT: 

                {
                    // do nothing
                }
                break;
           //----------------------------------//
             case XmlPullParser.START_TAG:
             { tagName = parser.getName();
                 if ("item".equals(tagName)){
                      getElement=1;
                 } else if (getElement!=0){

                      if ("pubDate".equals(tagName)){
                         pubDate= parser.nextText();
                         feedsPubDate.add(pubDate);
                         Log.d("value",pubDate);
                     }
                 }
             }
                 break;                     
           //----------------------------------//
             case XmlPullParser.END_TAG:

             { tagName = parser.getName();
                 if (tagName.equalsIgnoreCase("item") && getElement != 0){
                 }
             }
                 break;
          //----------------------------------//
            }// end-switch.
            eventType= parser.next();
        }// end-while.
        int i=0;

        SharedPreferences sp = getSharedPreferences("tempData", 0);
        String dateStringA=sp.getString("recentPubDate", null);
        Log.d("oldest date",dateStringA);
        for(String s : feedsPubDate )
        {
        String dateStringB = feedsPubDate.get(i);
        SimpleDateFormat parserSDF = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, DD MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss");
        Date dateA = null;
        try {
            dateA = parserSDF.parse(dateStringA);

        } catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        Date dateB = null;
        try {
            dateB = parserSDF.parse(dateStringB);
        } catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();

        }
        if (dateA.compareTo(dateB) < 0) {
            Log.d("imp msg","one new item");
            numberOfItems++;
        }
        i++;
        }
        Log.d("update result", String.valueOf(numberOfItems));
      // Toast.makeText(GeneralNews.this,"The size of the list"+feedsTitles.size() , Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
   return numberOfItems;

    } //end xmlParser method.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 }