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Android uses a lot of patterns in side its structure.

The very first pattern you can see is Layer pattern, it is classified as architecture pattern in POSA 1 (Pattern-oriented Software Architecture 1) book. The main structural characteristic of the Layers pattern is that the services of Layer J are only used by LayerJ+1 there are no further direct dependencies between layers. This pattern will solve the problem about the mix of low- and high-level issues, where high-level operations rely on the lower-level ones. Android is built on a stack of multi abstract level layer ( refer to http://elinux.org/Android_Architecture for more detail), so this design is deployed to solve its problem.

Android does a lot of stuffs on multi processes, so an IPC (inter-process communication) mechanism needs to be well-designed. In Android, Binder and using AIDL to make the communication seamlessly though services in these processes may be written in Java, C or C++. Binder is implemented by Proxy (In Gang of Four book), Broker (in POSA 1 book) and Facade Wrapper pattern (refer to this link http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/wrapper-facade.pdf) to implement. Proxy pattern will hide communication detail from client, so a process can communicate with object in local context or in network context uniformly. Broker is used to isolate communication-related concerns. Facade Wrapper pattern is used to to encapsulate low-level functions and data structures in C library Android within higher class interface.

Multi threading mechanism also uses a lot of pattern. A pattern we can see is Command Processor pattern used to execute long-running call.

Observer pattern is used to keep track of system-related status.

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Those are all I can remember now. If you are interested in Android design pattern. You can take a look at this course: https://class.coursera.org/posa-001/class/index on Coursera for more detail.