et
up in key life-cycle methods such as <code><a href="../../reference/android/app/Activity.html#onCreate(android.os.Bundle)">onCreate()</a></code>
and <code><a href="../../reference/android/app/Activity.html#onResume()">onResume()</a></code>.
Potentially long running operations such as network
or database operations, or computationally expensive calculations such as
resizing bitmaps should be done in a worker thread (or in the case of databases
operations, via an asynchronous request).</p>

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