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Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

You're reading from   Mastering Android Development with Kotlin Deep dive into the world of Android to create robust applications with Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473699
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Miloš Vasić Miloš Vasić
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Preface 1. Starting with Android 2. Building and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. Screens 4. Connecting Screen Flow 5. Look and Feel 6. Permissions 7. Working with Databases 8. Android Preferences 9. Concurrency in Android 10. Android Services 11. Messaging 12. Backend and API 13. Tuning Up for High Performance 14. Testing 15. Migration to Kotlin 16. Deploying Your Application

Handlers and threads

In Android, threading can be performed in the standard way by using threads. It is not recommended to just fire naked threads without any control. So, for this purpose, you can use the ThreadPools and Executor classes.

To demonstrate this, we will update our application. Create a new package called execution with a class called TaskExecutor. Make sure it looks like this:

     package com.journaler.execution 
 
     import java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue 
     import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue 
     import java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor 
     import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit 
 
     class TaskExecutor private constructor( 
        corePoolSize: Int, 
        maximumPoolSize: Int, 
        workQueue: BlockingQueue<Runnable>? 
 
    ) : ThreadPoolExecutor( 
        corePoolSize, 
        maximumPoolSize, 
        0L, 
    ...
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