In Android, the components refer to different types of building blocks that define the behavior and functionality of an application. The components include activities, services, broadcast receivers, and content providers.
- Activities: They represent the user interface and handle user interactions. They are responsible for presenting a visual user interface and managing the application's lifecycle.
- Services: They perform background operations that run independently of the user interface. Services can be used to perform tasks in the background, such as playing music, fetching data from a server, or performing long-running operations.
- Broadcast receivers: They respond to system-wide broadcast announcements or custom broadcast messages sent within the application. They can be used to handle events like incoming SMS messages, network connectivity changes, or battery level changes.
- Content providers: They manage a shared set of data that can