Project: Android Threads and Background Tasks

Android Project with variety of classes that shows how to implements and deal with background tasks in Android.

Topics

• Intro.

Process

• Android Framework.
• Android Linux Process.

Thread

• Threads Intro.
• Threads Contents.

Thread Patterns (Concurrency)

• Thread, Looper, Handler Pattern (Main2Activity.java, MyFirstThread.java).
• HandlerThreads Pattern (Main3Activity.java, MyFirstRunnable.java).
• AsyncTask Pattern (Main5Activity.java, MyAsyncTask.java, MyAsyncTaskCallbacks.java).
• Thread Pools P1 Pattern (Main4Activity.java, MyThreadPoolRunnable.java.java, AppExecutor.java, NameRepository.java).
• Thread Pools P2 Pattern.
• Loader Pattern.

Broadcast

• Static Broadcast Receiver.
• Dynamic Broadcast Receiver.
• Using Local Broadcast Receiver to communicate with Activity.

Services

• Services Intro.
• Started Service.
• Intent Service.
• Bound Service.
• Using ResultReceiver to communicate with a Service.
• Using Local Broadcast to communicate with a Service.

Alarm Manager

• Alarm Manager Relative Time.
• Alarm Manager Real Time (Calendar).

Tasks and Jobs

• Arranging Tasks Architecture.
• Using Android JobSchedualer.
• Using Firebase JobDispatcher.
• Using JetPack WorkManager.

Examples

Sources