Book description
Multithreading is essential if you want to create an Android app with a great user experience, but how do you know which techniques can help solve your problem? This practical book describes many asynchronous mechanisms available in the Android SDK, and provides guidelines for selecting the ones most appropriate for the app you’re building.
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Table of contents
- I. Introduction
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II. Fundamentals
- 2. Multithreading in Java
- 3. Threads on Android
- 4. Thread Communication
- 5. Interprocess Communication
- 6. Memory Management
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III. Asynchronous Techniques
- 7. Managing the Lifecycle of a Basic Thread
- 8. HandlerThread: a High-Level Queueing Mechanism
- 9. Control Over Thread Execution Through the Executor Framework
- 10. Tying a Background task to the UI Thread with AsyncTask
- 11. Services
- 12. IntentService
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Efficient Android Threading
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449364137
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