Learning Android Development – continued – Chapter 10 completed

Continuing learning Android Development using the book ‘Beginning Android Application Development’ from Wrox.

Yesterday, completed Chapter 10 – Developing Android Services.

This featured:

– Reasons for needing a service
– Creating services that run in the background
– How to perform long-running tasks in a separate thread
– How to perform repeated tasks in a service
– How an activity and a service communicate