COMPONENTS OF ANDROID

Manish Mahesh Talreja
1 min readSep 2, 2020

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ANDROID APPLICATION COMPONENTS

THERE ARE IN ALL FOUR COMPONENTS OF ANDROID. THEY ARE

  1. ACTIVITIES : AN ACTIVITY REPRESENTS A SINGLE SCREEN WITH USER INTERFACE JUST LIKE WINDOW OR FRAME.
  2. SERVICES : A SERVICE IS A COMPONENT THAT RUNS IN BACKGROUND. TO PERFORM LONG RUNNING OPERATIONS WITHOUT NEEDING TO INTERACT WITH THE USERS AND IT WORKS EVEN IF APPLICATION IS DESTROYED.
  3. BROADCAST RECEIVERS : BROADCAST RECEIVERS SIMPLY RESPOND TO BROADCAST MESSAGES FROM OTHER APPLICATIONS OR FROM SYSTEM ITSELF. THESE MESSEGES ARE SOMETIMES CALLED EVENTS OR INTENTS.
  4. CONTENT PROVIDERS : CONTENT PROVIDERS SUPPLY DATA FROM ONE APPLICATIONS TO OTHERS ON REQUEST. A CONTENT PROVIDERS CAN USE DIFFRENT WAYS TO STORE ITS DATA AND DATA CAN BE STORED IN DATABASE, FILES AND ON NETWORK ETC.

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Manish Mahesh Talreja

An Android Developer who loves developing technical products for the society.