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Introduction and Example of Eventbus in Android.

EventBus is a library of Greenbot . This is very simple for all users how to implement and its basic use. Here I will also share examples for better understanding. What is EventBus? EventBus is subscribed/publish event bus to communication between components with limited lines of code, in short, its bus for events transfers the data between one activity(class) to another to reflect the changes based on our needs. That makes the data exchange between components like Activity, Fragment, Services, and any kind of backgrounds threads pretty easy. EventBus can handle the threading for us: events can be posted in threads different from the posting thread. Common use can be dealing with UI changes. In Android, UI changes must be done in the Main(UI) thread. In other words, networking or more time-consuming task cannot be handled in the Main thread, for that we must use AsyncTask or Handler to make it more smooth. Now we have one more options use EventBus to change the UI po

Display Toast in different style : Crouton

I know most of people uses Toast when displaying message i.e. Warning, Error, Confirmation, and so on. But today we show the toast in different way. And this toast already have been seen by you in Facebook Android application. Its display when network is not reachable. So now we move to our main point. How to generate that kind of toast with custom style. Here I attached screen shots so you can check it and help from it. [Crouton - Alert Message] [Crouton - Confirm Message] [Crouton - Custom View Message] [Crouton - Custom View Message at specific place] You can download full source code from here. CroutonAndroidApplication If you are satisfied then please give your comments. Thanks for your Interest!!!

Google Maps API v2 using Android

We know how to add Maps in Android Project. But here I would like to share Map Integration (Google Map API V2). Google has deprecated the Google Map API v1. From now we use Map API v2. For more details you can check developers document. https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/ Why Google Map API v2? The new Google Maps Android API v2 allows you to offer interactive, feature-rich maps to users of your Android application. Some features are: * Caching part is improved * Maps are now turn into 3D * Faster, smoother and use less bandwidth Google Play Service : Library As per new Google Map API v2 we need to add google_play_service_lib for reference to our project. You can found that library from this location. android-sdk\extras\google\google_play_services\libproject\google-play-services_lib Here I display screen shots in step by step to how to follow it. [Configure Android Key for Google Map v2] [Android API Key for Google Map v2]