Chapter 17
Android Services: Using Background Processing
In this chapter, we will delve into Android Services, which are utilized by developers to perform background asynchronous operations, which can process data streams or computations on their own, without having to synchronize with the application user interface design, or sync-up with the application content (the on-going user experience) in any way.
Services are generally utilized to handle things that need to be going on in the background of your app user experience, in parallel with an Android user’s real-time usage of your application, but not directly synchronized or connected in real-time with that application’s user experience design.
Examples of uses of Android Services would ...
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