Android: What is Binder Thread?

Question

I use Debug.startMethodTracing for my purposes and in the output file I can see(I don\'t use IPC):

8   Binder Thread #2
7   Binder Thread #1

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Answer 1

"Binder is a mechanism that provides Inter Process Communication."

Binder isn't necessarily just an IPC mechanism.

All cross component traffic is abstracted from Binder, a local intent for example is a binder abstraction.