About This code

Concurrency is an important issue, in Android. This repository contains four separate projects, each of which shows one way of managing concurrent tasks.

Setup

Each of the projects has the two meta-data files necessary to create an Eclipse project, in the directory: $PROJ/tools/ide/eclipse. You can create an Eclipse project from a *nix command line, like this:

> cd $PROJ
> cp tools/ide/eclipse/project .project
> cp tools/ide/eclipse/classpath .classpath

Note that the file names do not have initial periods ('.') in the tools directory, but require them, in the root directory, to be recognized by Eclipse

Projects

Naive

This example simple presents the problem: making a request of a network service.

It is naive and broken.

AsyncTask

This example demonstrates the use of an AsyncTask to move the network request to a non-UI thread.

Unbound Service

This example demonstrates the use of an IntentService as a way of managing asynchronous tasks.

Bound Service

This example demonstrates a bound Looper/Handler as a way of managing asynchronous tasks. == Legal

Please see NOTICE file in this directory for copyright, license terms, and legal disclaimers.

Copyright © 2012 Marakana Inc.