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Pro Android with Kotlin: Developing Modern Mobile Apps with Kotlin and Jetpack
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Pro Android with Kotlin: Developing Modern Mobile Apps with Kotlin and Jetpack

by Peter Späth
December 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
881 pages
15h 2m
English
Apress
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P. SpäthPro Android with Kotlinhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8745-3_2

2. Application

Peter Späth1  
(1)
Leipzig, Germany
 
An Android app consists of components like activities, services, broadcast receivers, and content providers. See Figure 2-1. Activities are for interacting with device users, services are for program parts that run without a dedicated user interface, broadcast receivers listen for standardized messages from other apps and components, and content providers allow other apps and components to access a certain amount and kind of data provided by a component.

The flow diagram of android OS with an app into APIs and android runtime.

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