Frequent question: What is the difference between task and activity in Android applications?

What is the difference between task and activity in Android Applications? A task is a collection of activities that users interact with when performing a certain job. Whereas, an activity is an single, standalone module of an application which correlates to a single use interface.

What is the difference between application and activity in Android?

Activities however are what defines every major stage of your application. It wouldn’t be possible to build an application without Activities. You will have a main Activity class and this will indeed be defined with ‘extends Activity‘. Application is what lives till your android app process is killed.

What comes first task or activity?

The word task means work that’s undertaken and needs to be completed. Activity simply means an action taking place or some event that’s happening. There’s always an intention behind undertaking any task. There may or may not be a particular intention behind an activity that’s happening.

What are examples of activities?

Examples

  • Writing and putting on a play.
  • Creating and exhibiting art works.
  • Creating and producing a show.
  • Producing a short film (a variety of subjects are possible).
  • Participating in writing, painting, ceramics and jewellery-making workshops and exhibiting the resulting creations.
  • Singing in a choir.

What is task example?

To task is to drain someone’s resources or to assign someone to do a particular job. An example of task is when a child took all his parent’s energy. An example of task is when you assign Joe the job of taking out the garbage.

What is Android application life cycle?

Overview of Android Lifecycles

Activity Lifecycle Methods
onCreate() Called when activity first created No
onRestart() Called after activity stopped, prior to restarting No
onStart() Called when activity is becoming visible to user No
onResume() Called when activity starts interacting with user No

Is a task a process?

Tasks are made up of actions or steps. A process is an upper level description of a series of major steps required to accomplish an objective. Processes are generally made up of procedures or tasks. A task is another way of describing a procedure.

What are the process activity?

Process Activity is an activity that belongs to a particular process. It defines the smallest measurable amount of work to be performed to convert some portion of process inputs into desired outputs. All activities included in the same process create a definition of work to be performed by the process.

What are process activities?

Process activities are documented in a structured model that identifies the events (things outside the process that initiate, terminate, or happen during the course of the action described in the model), and the set of activities required within the scope of the business step.

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