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Every Android developer, at one point or another, needs to deal with threads in their application. When an application is launched in Android, it creates the first thread of execution, known as the “main” thread. The main thread is responsible for dispatching events to the appropriate user interface widgets as well as communicating with components from the Android UI toolkit. To keep your applic..

Asynchronous Function Async Work AsyncTask Future (ListenableFuture) Event bus Observable Evaluation When they run How they run How they impact AsyncTask Must be explicitly stated Work cannot be modified or composed Data is output via side effects Asynchronous Ideals Explicit Execution Create async tasks without needing to execute them immediately Easy thread management Easily assign code to the..