Chapter 10
Exploring the Concurrency Utilities
Chapter 7 introduced Java’s Threads API. Significant problems with Threads resulted in the development of the more powerful Concurrency Utilities Framework. In this chapter, I take you on a tour of this framework from Android’s perspective. Note that you won’t find a discussion of newer features, such as the Fork/Join Framework, because Android doesn’t support them.
Introducing the Concurrency Utilities
The low-level Threads API lets you create multithreaded applications that offer better performance and responsiveness over their single-threaded counterparts. However, there are problems:
- Low-level concurrency primitives, such as synchronized and wait()/notify(), are often hard to use correctly. ...
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