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J. StevensonAndroid Software Internals Quick Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6914-5_9

9. Services, Launchers, and Components

James Stevenson1  
(1)
London, UK
 

Long-Running Services

In Android there are several ways that “jobs” can be tasked for a one-off or periodic running after the current activity closes. The techniques discussed here will vary between being the two following types:

  • Strongly bound to the current activity, such as AsyncTask , meaning that if the activity finishes, then the task is garbage collected.

  • Not strongly bound to the current activity, such as JobScheduler, where the task continues even after the parent activity itself is ...

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