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In Chapter 13, we covered handlers and worker threads to run long-running tasks while the main thread kept the UI house in order. Android SDK has recognized this as a pattern and abstracted the handler and thread details into a utility class called AsyncTask. You can use AsyncTask to run tasks that take longer than five seconds in the context of UI. (We will cover how to run really long-running tasks, ranging from minutes to even hours, through “Long-Running Receivers and Services” in Chapter 16.)
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© 2015 Dave MacLean, Satya Komatineni, and Grant Allen
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MacLean, D., Komatineni, S., Allen, G. (2015). Advanced AsyncTask and Progress Dialogs. In: Pro Android 5. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4681-7_15
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