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Asynchronous Android Programming

You're reading from   Asynchronous Android Programming Unlock the power of multi-core mobile devices to build responsive and reactive Android applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883248
Length 394 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Helder Vasconcelos Helder Vasconcelos
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Preface 1. Asynchronous Programming in Android FREE CHAPTER 2. Performing Work with Looper, Handler, and HandlerThread 3. Exploring the AsyncTask 4. Exploring the Loader 5. Interacting with Services 6. Scheduling Work with AlarmManager 7. Exploring the JobScheduler API 8. Interacting with the Network 9. Asynchronous Work on the Native Layer 10. Network Interactions with GCM 11. Exploring Bus-based Communications 12. Asynchronous Programing with RxJava Index

Chapter 5. Interacting with Services

In the previous chapters we focused our attention on the basic, high-level, Android-specific constructs to load data asynchronously on an independent line of execution (background thread); android.os.AsyncTask and android.content.Loader.

What if we want to provide a common set of operations that implement any kind of business logic over a centralized single entity that could be re-used by different clients and has a lifecycle that is not bound to the client lifecycle? By clients, in Android, we mean any kind of UI entity, such as an Activity or Fragment object, a BroadcastReceiver, or any kind of object that wants to exercise business logic.

The solution for this pattern in Android is available in the form of android.app.Service.

In Android, the Service programming pattern, well-known in enterprise architectures, does not necessarily mean background work, so to avoid any kind of responsiveness degradation in the UI we should try keep the main...

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