Question: What Is Background Thread in Android?
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What is it? Background processing in Android refers to the execution of tasks in different threads than the Main Thread, also known as UI Thread, where views are inflated and where the user interacts with our app.

What is background thread?

All Android apps use a main thread to handle UI operations. Calling long-running operations from this main thread can lead to freezes and unresponsiveness. … You can create additional background threads to handle long-running operations while the main thread continues to handle UI updates.

What are threads in Android?

A thread is a thread of execution in a program. The Java Virtual Machine allows an application to have multiple threads of execution running concurrently. Every thread has a priority. Threads with higher priority are executed in preference to threads with lower priority.

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