I am developing a GoogleMap based android application. I need to display 1000's of Markers on the map. Currently I retrieve the Latitude and Longitude for each marker from an SQLite database loader...

Background: I have a custom CursorLoader that works directly with SQLite Database instead of using a ContentProvider. This loader works with a ListFragment backed by a CursorAdapter. So far so goo...

Background I've heard that there are some new solutions for loading data in the background which are more recommended than AsyncTask (like loaders). The problem AsyncTasks are great and easy to ...

I am using ActionbarSherlock with a SherlockListFragment that implements LoaderManager.LoaderCallbacks. In my ApplicationActivity onCreate method I am using setContentView(R.layout.application);...

I'm trying to figure out how to use Loaders in Android 3.0 but can't seem to get it to work. The docs only describe using CursorLoader but I'm using AsyncTaskLoader. From the docs it seems that yo...

I would like to follow this nice usability pattern, where app stores data offline for faster response and updates it when it gets new data online. And I use Loaders with LoaderManager. Now, what ...

When creating an Android application using Loaders, should every activity and fragment have its own LoaderManager? Or should there only be one LoaderManager that the application owns? And lastly, a...

Doing something in background and then updating UI is very hard to implement correctly in Android. It's simply badly designed. Typical example is an AsyncTask that fetches something from the web an...