Abstract: Landscape display is a key mode for Android devices, yet many apps lack dedicated landscape UIs. An analysis of 289 popular apps from Google Play shows only 20 provide landscape interfaces; ...

In Part 7, we explored the main thread, the Looper, and the MessageQueue. We saw how the Looper keeps a thread alive by blocking on an infinite loop, and how messages are queued and processed one at a ...

In the previous parts of this series, we explored what processes are, how they are launched, and the hierarchy Android uses to manage them. Now it's time to look inside a process and understand what ...

Broadcast intents are one of the major building blocks of the Android platform, generally intended for asynchronous notification of events. There are three flavors of intents that can be broadcast: ...

Toll fraud malware, a subcategory of billing fraud in which malicious applications subscribe users to premium services without their knowledge or consent, is one of the most prevalent types of Android ...

Original implementation of Handler always keeps hard reference to handler in queue of execution. Any object in Message or Runnable posted to android.os.Handler will be hard referenced for some time.

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