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Asynchronous Android
Concurrent Programming on Android is a step-by-step guide that builds a complete picture of the concurrency constructs available on the Android platform.This book is for Android developers who want to learn about the advanced concepts of Android programming. No prior knowledge of concurrency and asynchronous programming is required. This book is also targeted towards Java experts who are new to Android.
146 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 24, 2013
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April 7, 2014
With more than a million apps available from Google Play, Android has quickly become one of the most popular mobile operating system in use. Nowadays it is more important than ever to build apps that react quickly to user input, deliver results in a flash, and sync data in the background. Among the many things that contribute to a great user experience, responsiveness is the most important. Before making your app available to your users you must eliminate pauses and glitches while scrolling content, remove user interfaces that freeze while loading data from storage, add progress updates to let us know what's happening, and so on. In order to accomplish this task you must understand how to implement asynchronous operations that work with the Android platform
To address this problem efficiently, I recommend reading the book 'Asynchronous Android' from 'Packt Publishing' (see http://bit.ly/1nJSX7B )
'Asynchronous Android' is a practical book that guides you through the concurrency constructs provided by the Android platform, illustrating the applications, benefits, and pitfalls of each.
Reading the book, you will learn to use AsyncTask correctly to perform operations in the background, keeping user-interfaces running smoothly while avoiding treacherous memory leaks. Discover Handler, HandlerThread and Looper, the related and fundamental building blocks of asynchronous programming in Android. Escape from the constraints of the Activity lifecycle to load and cache data efficiently across your entire application with the Loader framework. Keep your data fresh with scheduled tasks, and understand how Services let your application continue to run in the background, even when the user is busy with something else.
Asynchronous Android will help you to build well-behaved apps with smooth, responsive user-interfaces that delight users with speedy results and data that’s always fresh, and keep the system happy and the battery charged by playing by the rules.
To address this problem efficiently, I recommend reading the book 'Asynchronous Android' from 'Packt Publishing' (see http://bit.ly/1nJSX7B )
'Asynchronous Android' is a practical book that guides you through the concurrency constructs provided by the Android platform, illustrating the applications, benefits, and pitfalls of each.
Reading the book, you will learn to use AsyncTask correctly to perform operations in the background, keeping user-interfaces running smoothly while avoiding treacherous memory leaks. Discover Handler, HandlerThread and Looper, the related and fundamental building blocks of asynchronous programming in Android. Escape from the constraints of the Activity lifecycle to load and cache data efficiently across your entire application with the Loader framework. Keep your data fresh with scheduled tasks, and understand how Services let your application continue to run in the background, even when the user is busy with something else.
Asynchronous Android will help you to build well-behaved apps with smooth, responsive user-interfaces that delight users with speedy results and data that’s always fresh, and keep the system happy and the battery charged by playing by the rules.
March 21, 2014
Un libro compatto ma molto denso di informazioni.
Riesce a introdurre (e anche, in alcuni casi, ad approfondire) praticamente tutti i sistemi di parallelizzazione delle operazioni disponibili su Android, specificando anche bene in quale versione dell'SDK sono state introdotte ed eventualmente quali sono disponibili tramite modulo di compatibilità ufficiale Google.
Gli esempi sono abbastanza chiari, anche se in alcuni casi presuppongono una certa conoscenza della programmazione Android per "riempire i buchi". Per esempio non dà, nel testo del libro, i layout o il listato completo di alcune classi. Sono comunque disponibili nell'archivio scaricabile dal sito dell'editore.
Peccato per la formattazione degli epub della Packt, che su tablet 7-8" penalizzano molto i listati, rendendoli quasi illeggibili (font e margini troppo grandi)
Riesce a introdurre (e anche, in alcuni casi, ad approfondire) praticamente tutti i sistemi di parallelizzazione delle operazioni disponibili su Android, specificando anche bene in quale versione dell'SDK sono state introdotte ed eventualmente quali sono disponibili tramite modulo di compatibilità ufficiale Google.
Gli esempi sono abbastanza chiari, anche se in alcuni casi presuppongono una certa conoscenza della programmazione Android per "riempire i buchi". Per esempio non dà, nel testo del libro, i layout o il listato completo di alcune classi. Sono comunque disponibili nell'archivio scaricabile dal sito dell'editore.
Peccato per la formattazione degli epub della Packt, che su tablet 7-8" penalizzano molto i listati, rendendoli quasi illeggibili (font e margini troppo grandi)
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