Oren Bochman OrenBochman

IntentService Stub

IntentService is a base class for Services that handle asynchronous requests (expressed as Intents) on demand.

work is run in a worker thread. (as opposed to extending Service which defalts to the main thread).
multiple calls are queued and run serially.
no need to set priority
to return a result override onBind which return a PendingIntent
for api level > 26 JobIntentService which uses jobs would be prefered.

basic code including

To develop great UI the designer impliments different layouts for different breakpoints.

orientation:vertical (1st break point) - master_frag and detail_frag are each in a FragmentActiity
orientation:horizontal (2nd break point) - master_detail_act.xml incorprating master_frag and detail_frag fragments

Detection is done in onCreate is testing for the articleView View in the detail fragment. if it is available we are in master/detail layout.

I generally try to avoid libraries and code I did not write/test but here is a quick refrence for:

code to access an external app's camera capabilities

A quick demo of implicit and explicit intents.

	/**
	* This code will take a image from url and convert is to a byte array
	*/
	private void getImage(){
	byte[] logoImage = getLogoImage(IMAGEURL);
	}

	/**
	* get an image from the web anc conver to byteArray
	*/