What makes greenrobot’s EventBus unique, are its features:
- Simple yet powerful: EventBus is a tiny library with an API that is super easy to learn. Nevertheless, your software architecture may great benefit by decoupling components: Subscribers do not have know about senders, when using events.
- Battle tested: EventBus is one of the most used Android libraries: thousands of apps use EventBus including very popular ones. Over a billion app installs speak for themselves.
- High Performance: Especially on Android, performance matters. EventBus was profiled and optimized a lot; probably making it the fastest solution of its kind.
- Convenient Annotation based API (without sacrificing performance): Simply put the @Subscribe annotation to your subscriber methods. Because of a build time indexing of annotations, EventBus does not need to do annotation reflection during your app’s run time, which is very slow on Android.
- Android main thread delivery: When interacting with the UI, EventBus can deliver events in the main thread regardless how an event was posted.
- Background thread delivery: If your subscriber does long running tasks, EventBus can also use background threads to avoid UI blocking.
- Event & Subscriber inheritance: In EventBus, the object oriented paradigm apply to event and subscriber classes. Let’s say event class A is the superclass of B. Posted events of type B will also be posted to subscribers interested in A. Similarly the inheritance of subscriber classes are considered.
- Zero configuration: You can get started immediately using a default EventBus instance available from anywhere in your code.
- Configurable: To tweak EventBus to your requirements, you can adjust its behavior using the builder pattern.
