Hour 5. Responsive Apps: Running in the Background

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

Image Working in the background

Image Using an AsyncTask

Image Using IntentServices and BroadcastReceivers

In Hour 4, “Activities and Fragments,” you learned about Activities and the Activity lifecycle. In this hour, you learn more about the UI thread of an Activity and how to create responsive apps by using background processes. In a responsive app, the user can still interact with ...

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