><a href="../../reference/android/app/Notification.html">Notification</a></code>. So as with other methods
called in the UI thread, applications should avoid potentially long-running
operations or calculations in a broadcast receiver. But instead of doing intensive
tasks via worker threads, your
application should start an <code><a href="../../reference/android/app/IntentService.html">IntentService</a></code> if a
potentially long running action needs to be taken in response to an intent
broadcast.</p>

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