Concurrency in Android
As explained before, in order to achieve a scalable application in a multicore device environment, the Android developer should be capable of creating concurrent lines of execution that combine and aggregate data from multiple resources.
The Android SDK, as it is based on a subset of Java SDK, derived from the Apache Harmony project, provides access to low-level concurrency constructs such as java.lang.Thread, java.lang.Runnable, and the synchronized and volatile keywords.
These constructs are the most basic building blocks to achieve concurrency and parallelism, and all the high-level asynchronous constructs are created around these building blocks.
The most basic one, java.lang.Thread, is the class that is mostly used and ...
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