Background tasks

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How to to run a function in background even after the app is closed?

Services are one of four fundamental app components of Android (other three being Activities, Broadcast Receivers and Content Providers). They can perform long running tasks in background, even after the application is closed, for an indefinite period of time. Some simple use cases of services: Playing music in background Fetching data from a remote server. Downloading files from the internet. Like Vishwas mentioned, this implementation of services doesn’t directly let app developers to use…