How to create our own Listener interface in android?

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Could someone help me to create user defined listener interface with some code snippets?

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In the year of 2018, there's no need for listeners interfaces. You've got Android LiveData to take care of passing the desired result back to the UI components.

If I'll take Rupesh's answer and adjust it to use LiveData, it will like so:

public class Event {

    public LiveData<EventResult> doEvent() {
         /*
          * code code code
          */

         // and in the end

         LiveData<EventResult> result = new MutableLiveData<>();
         result.setValue(eventResult);
         return result;
    }
}

and now in your driver class MyTestDriver:

public class MyTestDriver {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Event e = new Event();
        e.doEvent().observe(this, new  Observer<EventResult>() {
            @Override
            public void onChanged(final EventResult er) {
                // do your work.
            }
        });
    }
}

For more information along with code samples you can read my post about it, as well as the offical docs:

When and why to use LiveData

Official docs

In Android,you can create an interface such as Listener,and your Activity implements it,but i don't think it is a good idea. if we have many components to listen the changes of their state,we can create a BaseListener implements interface Listener,and use type code to handle them. we can bind the method when we create XML file,for example:

<Button  
        android:id="@+id/button4"  
        android:layout_width="match_parent"  
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
        android:text="Button4"  
        android:onClick="Btn4OnClick" />

and the source code:

 public void Btn4OnClick(View view) {  
        String strTmp = "点击Button04";  
        tv.setText(strTmp);  
    }  

but i don't think it is a good idea...

I have done it something like below for sending my model class from the Second Activity to First Activity. I used LiveData to achieve this, with the help of answers from Rupesh and TheCodeFather.

Second Activity

public static MutableLiveData<AudioListModel> getLiveSong() {
        MutableLiveData<AudioListModel> result = new MutableLiveData<>();
        result.setValue(liveSong);
        return result;
    }

"liveSong" is AudioListModel declared globally

Call this method in the First Activity

PlayerActivity.getLiveSong().observe(this, new Observer<AudioListModel>() {
            @Override
            public void onChanged(AudioListModel audioListModel) {
                if (PlayerActivity.mediaPlayer != null && PlayerActivity.mediaPlayer.isPlaying()) {
                    Log.d("LiveSong--->Changes-->", audioListModel.getSongName());
                }
            }
        });

May this help for new explorers like me.

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