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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Concurrency and Error Handling Why Do We Use Asynchronous Processing?

Posted by Javier Pacheco
Javier Pacheco
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So, if asynchronous is the way to be, why do we have synchronous processing? In which cases should we use each of them?

So, if asynchronous is the way to be, why do we have synchronous processing? In which cases should we use each of them?

1 Answer

John Shankland
John Shankland
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John Shankland
John Shankland
1,973 Points

Javier,

Often times you're http code will already be running in the background. Like when you write a service that launches it own threads, or maybe your using a third party library that uses callbacks that are called on background threads. In that case you would use the synchronous calls.