Chapter 1: Introduction to Asynchronous Programming in Android
There are Android applications that work on their own. But most apps retrieve data from or send data to a local database or a backend server. Examples of these include fetching posts from a social network, saving your favorites from a list, uploading an image, or updating your profile information. These tasks and other resource-intensive computations may happen instantly or take a while to finish. Factors such as internet connection, device specifications, and server settings affect how long these operations take.
Long-running operations must not be performed on the main UI thread as the application will be blocked until they are completed. The application might become unresponsive ...
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