These classes show you how to run jobs in the background to boost your application's performance and minimize its drain on the battery. #### [Running in a Background Service](#) How to improve UI performance and responsiveness by sending work to a Service running in the background #### [Loading Data in the Background](#) How to use CursorLoader to query data without affecting UI responsiveness. #### [Managing Device Awake State](#) How to use repeating alarms and wake locks to run background jobs.