Asynchronous Android -- Table of Contents -- Asynchronous Android -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Building Responsive Android Applications -- Introducing the Dalvik Virtual Machine -- Memory sharing and the Zygote -- Understanding the Android thread model -- The main thread -- Unresponsive apps and the ANR dialog -- Maintaining responsiveness -- Concurrency in Android -- Correctness issues in concurrent programs -- Liveness issues in concurrent programs -- Android-specific concurrency issues -- The Activity lifecycle -- Manipulating the user interface -- Android-specific concurrency constructs -- Summary -- 2. Staying Responsive with AsyncTask -- Introducing AsyncTask -- Declaring AsyncTask types -- Executing AsyncTasks -- Providing feedback to the user -- Providing progress updates -- Canceling AsyncTask -- Handling exceptions -- Controlling the level of concurrency -- Common AsyncTask issues -- Fragmentation issues -- Activity lifecycle issues -- Handling lifecycle issues with early cancellation -- Handling lifecycle issues with retained headless fragments -- Applications of AsyncTask -- Summary -- 3. Distributing Work with Handler and HandlerThread -- Understanding Looper -- Building responsive apps with Handler -- Scheduling work with post -- Canceling a pending Runnable -- Scheduling work with send -- Canceling pending Messages -- Composition versus Inheritance -- Multithreaded example -- Sending Messages versus posting Runnables -- Building responsive apps with HandlerThread.

Handler programming issues -- Leaking implicit references -- Leaking explicit references -- Applications of Handler and HandlerThread -- Summary -- 4. Asynchronous I/O with Loader -- Introducing Loaders -- Building responsive apps with AsyncTaskLoader -- Building responsive apps with CursorLoader -- Combining Loaders -- Applications of Loaders -- Summary -- 5. Queuing Work with IntentService -- Introducing Service and IntentService -- Building responsive apps with IntentService -- Handling results -- Returning results with PendingIntent -- Posting results as system notifications -- Applications of IntentService -- HTTP uploads with IntentService -- Reporting progress -- Summary -- 6. Long-running Tasks with Service -- Building responsive apps with Service -- Controlling concurrency with Executors -- Returning results with Messenger -- Communicating with Services -- Direct communication with local Services -- Broadcasting results with Intents -- Detecting unhandled broadcasts -- Applications of Services -- Summary -- 7. Scheduling Work with AlarmManager -- Scheduling alarms with AlarmManager -- Canceling alarms -- Scheduling repeating alarms -- Handling alarms -- Handling alarms with Activities -- Handling alarms with BroadcastReceiver -- Doing work with BroadcastReceiver -- Doing background work with goAsync -- Handling alarms with Services -- Staying awake with WakeLocks -- Applications of AlarmManager -- Summary -- Index.