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Asynchronous Android Programming - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883248
Pages 394 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Steve Liles Steve Liles
Profile icon Steve Liles

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Asynchronous Android Programming Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Asynchronous Programming in Android 2. Performing Work with Looper, Handler, and HandlerThread 3. Exploring the AsyncTask 4. Exploring the Loader 5. Interacting with Services 6. Scheduling Work with AlarmManager 7. Exploring the JobScheduler API 8. Interacting with the Network 9. Asynchronous Work on the Native Layer 10. Network Interactions with GCM 11. Exploring Bus-based Communications 12. Asynchronous Programing with RxJava Index

Introducing Loaders


As the name suggests, the job of Loader is to load data on behalf of other parts of the application, and to make that data available across activities and fragments within the same process. The Loaders framework was created to solve a couple of issues related to asynchronous loading in Activities and Fragments:

  • Background processing: The heavy lifting is automatically performed on a background thread, and the results are safely introduced to the main thread on completion.

  • Result caching: Loaded data can be cached and redelivered on repeat calls for speed and efficiency.

  • Lifecycle awareness: The framework gives us control over when a Loader instance is destroyed, and allows Loaders to live outside the Activity lifecycle, making their data available across the application and across Activity restarts.

  • Data change management: Loaders monitor their underlying data source, and reload their data in the background when necessary. The framework includes lifecycle callbacks that...

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