In Chapter 12 on digital audio, you utilized the Android AudioManager class, which is a subclass of the Android Service class. In Chapter 11, you also learned about the Android FullscreenActivity, which has both threads (runnable) and Service features, which we will cover during this chapter. Also in this chapter, we will take a good look at the Android Service classes and related processing concepts, such as processes and threads.
Developers use the Android Service class and subclasses to perform background asynchronous operations. “Asynchronous” ...
