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Services & IPC

Background components and the ways Android processes talk to each other.

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Google Place API Autocomplete Service in Android Application

Recently in one of my android applications I wanted to obtain the user’s location in terms of city and country that they can feed from their (edit) profile…

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Understanding Android Started and Bound Services

In Android, a Service is an application component that can perform long-running operations in the background on the UI thread.

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An Overview of Android Binder Framework

In the Linux OS, there are several techniques to achieve IPC (Inter-process communication) like files, sockets, signals, pipes, message queues, semaphores,…

627w Current
Android Background Services with IntentService

We’ve discussed Services before that run on the application’s UI (main thread).

876w Current
Android Interprocess Communication (IPC) with AIDL

Two processes cannot share memory and communicate with each other directly.

1092w Current
Android Interprocess Communication (IPC) with Messenger (Remote Bound Services)

Interprocess Communication is the communication of threads across process boundaries.

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