Understanding WorkManager state

In the previous recipe, Understanding the Jetpack WorkManager library, we looked into how we can use WorkManager. In that recipe, you might have noticed Work goes through a series of state changes, and the doWork function returns a result.

In this recipe, we will explore states in depth.

How to do it…

We will continue working on an example of how you can apply the concepts learned about in this recipe to your already-built project:

1. You might have noticed we mentioned before that we have three states: Success, Failure, and Retry. Work states, however, have different types of processes; we can have a one-time work state, periodic work state, or blocked state:

   Result

       SUCCESS, FAILURE, RETRY

You can look into this abstract class in more depth by clicking on the result and seeing how it is written.

2. In the first recipe, Understanding the Jetpack WorkManager library, we looked into the steps of setting...