Chapter 5. Interacting with Services
In the previous chapters we focused our attention on the basic, high-level, Android-specific constructs to load data asynchronously on an independent line of execution (background thread); android.os.AsyncTask and android.content.Loader.
What if we want to provide a common set of operations that implement any kind of business logic over a centralized single entity that could be re-used by different clients and has a lifecycle that is not bound to the client lifecycle? By clients, in Android, we mean any kind of UI entity, such as an Activity or Fragment object, a BroadcastReceiver, or any kind of object that wants to exercise business logic.
The solution for this pattern in Android is available in the form of ...
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