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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
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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

Scheduling a job


With the criteria already defined and the JobInfo object, we have all the entities required to set up the job for our application. So now let's show you how to create a job with a real example.

Our example will synchronize the user account information stored in a device file with an HTTP web service over a job scheduled using the Scheduler API. The user interface will provide us a UI where we can update the user information, a button to save the information on an internal file, and a button to set up the synchronization job that will upload the account information to the web service.

First, let's start by defining our job pre-requisites and parameters:

  • Our job should only run when the device is charging to save the battery

  • Our job should only run when an unmetered network is available to save mobile network bandwidth

  • Our job should only run when the device is idle because we don't want to slow down the UI responsiveness

  • Our job must run at least once within eight hours of being...

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