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7 to the degree where you can accurately describe them as a federation of
11 possible (and quite common) to create multiple threads within that process,
12 and it's also possible to create completely separate child processes if you
13 need to. Such cases are pretty uncommon though, because Android tries very
14 hard to make processes transparent to your code.</p>
21 what to do with all the top-level components (specifically activities,
29 can include displaying a UI to the user. It doesn't have to, though - some
31 application's Activities as the entry point to your application. </dd>
35 <dd>A View is an object that knows how to draw itself to the screen.
36 Android user interfaces are comprised of trees of Views. If you want to
43 <dd>An Intent is a simple message object that represents an "intention" to
44 do something. For example, if your application wants to display a web
45 page, it expresses its "Intent" to view the URI by creating an Intent
46 instance and handing it off to the system. The system locates some other
47 piece of code (in this case, the Browser) that knows how to handle that
48 Intent, and runs it. Intents can also be used to broadcast interesting
55 depending on its needs. Other components "bind" to a Service and invoke
58 probably still intends for her music to keep playing. A Service keeps the
64 can interact with this icon to receive information. The most well-known
71 <dd>A ContentProvider is a data storehouse that provides access to data on
72 the device; the classic example is the ContentProvider that's used to
75 define your own ContentProviders to expose data of your own.</dd>