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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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Steve Liles Steve Liles
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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

GcmListenerService delivery callbacks


In some situations, when there is no connectivity with the GCM servers due to lack of network connectivity, the message could remain on the local queues for a long period of time. So, in order to discard a message that remains on the queue without being sent to the GCM Service within the time specified, the GoogleCloudMessaging API provides an additional send method that could receive a TTL (Time to Live) time to set the message expire time:

void send (String to, String msgId, long timeToLive, Bundle data)

This works great when you have messages that are only relevant if they arrive within a certain time frame. With a time to live of 0, we'll attempt to send and return an error immediately if we're not connected. This situation does not apply for our example, so we will keep the original code with the send method that does not discard an old unsent message.

It is important to understand that the application GCM client is only able to queue a maximum of...

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