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The Android Platform provides a complete software stack. This means you get an operating system and middleware, as well as working applications (such as a phone dialer). Alongside all of this, you have an SDK that you can use to write applications for the platform. Thus far, we’ve seen that we can build applications that directly interact with the user through a user interface. We have not, however, discussed background services or the possibilities of building components that run in the background.
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© 2010 Sayed Y. Hashimi, Satya Komatineni, and Dave MacLean
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Hashimi, S.Y., Komatineni, S., MacLean, D. (2010). Building and Consuming Services. In: Pro Android 2. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2660-4_8
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