Background processing with AsyncTask

Oct 21, 2018 in Android

This tutorial shows how to use Android AsyncTask class to run jobs in background threads. All long running jobs need to run in a background thread so that they won't lock up the UI and create an Application Not Responding dialog.

Http requests in Android

Oct 22, 2018 in Android

Android contains a great support for interacting with different web services. This tutorial shows how to make a basic GET request to a web server and read the returned contents.