Best Practices for Background Jobs

These classes show you how to run jobs in the background to boost your application's performance and minimize its drain on the battery.

1. Running in a Background Service

   

   How to improve UI performance and responsiveness by sending work to a Service running in the background

   1. Creating a Background Service
   2. Sending Work Requests to the Background Service
   3. Reporting Work Status

2. Loading Data in the Background

   

   How to use CursorLoader to query data without affecting UI responsiveness.

   1. Running a Query with a CursorLoader
   2. Handling the Results

3. Managing Device Awake State

   

   How to use repeating alarms and wake locks to run background jobs.

   1. Keeping the Device Awake
   2. Scheduling Repeating Alarms