Application framework
The application framework provides APIs to the applications. It is used most often by application developers. After an interface is invoked by the applications, application frameworks talk to the system services through the Binder IPC mechanism. An Android application framework is not just a set of libraries for the application developers to use. It provides much more than that.
The break-through technology that the Android application framework brought to the developer community is a very nice separation between application layers and system layers. As we know Android application development uses the Java language and Android applications run in an environment similar to the Java virtual machine. In this kind of setup, ...
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