Android™ How to Program, Second Edition

Using Class Executors to Obtain an ExecutorService

The ExecutorService interface (of package java.util.concurrent) extends Executor and declares various methods for managing the life cycle of an Executor. An object that implements the ExecutorService interface can be created using static methods declared in class Executors (of package java.util.concurrent). We use interface ExecutorService and a method of class Executors in our example, which executes three tasks.