My brief notes on concurrent programming facilities available in android. I will update it i find something interesting, do comment if you think that I missed something. Threads :- Plain old java threads! and synchronization primitives , classes in java.util.concurrent , java monitor objects – http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/concurrent/package-summary.html Andorid Services – – http://developer.android.com/guide/components/services.html …