Inter Process Communication in Android?

IPC is inter-process communication. It describes the mechanisms used by different types of android components to communicate with one another. 1) Intents are messages which components can send and receive. It is a universal mechanism of passing data between processes.

How is IPC inter-process communication performed in Android?

It allows you to define the programming interface that both the client and service agree upon in order to communicate with each other using interprocess communication (IPC). On Android, one process cannot normally access the memory of another process.

What are the IPC methods used in Android?

There are 3 basic methods used for IPC on Android:
  • AIDL.
  • Messenger.
  • Broadcast.
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