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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

Applications of AlarmManager


AlarmManager allows us to schedule work to run without user intervention.

This means that we can arrange to do work pre-emptively, for example, to prepare data that our application will need to present to the user when they next open the application, or to alert the user to new or updated information with notifications.

Ideal use cases include things like periodically checking for new e-mails, SMS scheduling, time notifications, periodic data processing, downloading new editions of periodical publications (for example, daily newspapers and magazines), or uploading data from the device to a cloud backup service.

The AlarmManager is able to start future work effectively but the API should be used carefully to keep your application battery power consumption at low levels. To achieve that, the developer should try to keep the alarm frequency under certain levels and use the exact set functions that force the device to wake up only in cases where it is really necessary...

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