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Android High Performance Programming

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785288951
Pages 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Emil Atanasov Emil Atanasov
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Enrique López Mañas Enrique López Mañas
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Diego Grancini Diego Grancini
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Android High Performance Programming
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Preface
1. Introduction: Why High Performance? 2. Efficient Debugging 3. Building Layouts 4. Memory 5. Multithreading 6. Networking 7. Security 8. Optimizing Battery Consumption 9. Native Coding in Android 10. Performance Tips Index

Walkthrough


We will define here all we need to know to deal with a multithreading environment like Android. It is crucial to understand what a thread is and what problems can occur while dealing with one. That is why we are focusing on the Java framework for a while, because every Android developer should know those notions, and then we will focus on how that platform is defined in Android and integrated with more objects. This provides multiple ways to separate execution at all levels, from the multithreading inside an application to the communication between different processes, defining a particular language to reach the target. So, let's see what we are talking about.

Threading basics

We could think of a thread as a portion of instructions executed sequentially. These instructions are translated to be performed by the hardware of the device. When there are multiple portions of instructions to be executed, then the environment is called multithreaded. This technique is helpful to speed...

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