Summary
At a high level, this chapter has covered the following:
- Using an async task instead of handlers to do work in a background worker thread
- Using a progress dialog to monitor the progress of background work
- Dealing with device rotation
- Why you should care about an activity's life cycle methods
- Best practices when writing an async task
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