Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Regular update, May 3rd

Finished lecture of fundamentals, didn't collect notes to conserve time (the documentation is well formatted and easily searchable, so there shouldn't be any problem if I need reference).

Clearing the stack
Starting tasks
Processes
Threads
Remote call procedures
Thread-safe methods
Activity lifecycle
Saving activity state
Coordinating activities
Service lifecycle
Broadcast receiver lifecycle
Processes and lifecycles

One of most important facts to note is that we'll be using a service, not spawning a thread, to upload files to the cloud (e.g. a picture from a camera), so that Android assigns service process rank to the task, minimizing jeopardy of it being killed in the meantime :)

Next up: User Interface

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