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Applications often need to access networks to acquire resources (e.g., images) or to communicate with remote executable entities (e.g., web services). A network is a group of interconnected nodes (computing devices such as tablets and peripherals such as scanners or laser printers) that can be shared among the network’s users.
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Friesen, J. (2013). Accessing Networks. In: Learn Java for Android Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5723-3_12
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