A Pub/Sub pattern library from ViewModel/Fragment to Activity/Fragment

PubSubMessenger

PubSubMessenger is a Pub/Sub pattern library from ViewModel/Fragment to Activity/Fragment.

Overview

• PubSubMessenger is a Pub/Sub pattern library.
  • Messaging from ViewModel to Activity/Fragment. For example, Navigation, Dialog, SnackBar and so on.
  • Messaging from Fragment to Activity/Fragment. For example, Fragment callback, DialogFragment callback.
• PubSubMessenger is Lifecycle-aware like LiveData.
  • You can subscribe to messages at least Lifecycle.State.STARTED.
  • If you publish a message when lifecycle isn't at least STARTED, the message is suspend until at least STARTED.
  • A message consumed automatically when you observed unlike LiveData, SingleLiveEvent and LiveData<Event>.
  • You can subscribe to messages multiple times unlike LiveData and SingleLiveEvent.
  • You cannot use to communication with another Activity. There is risk of losing the message because of killing Activity by OS.
• PubSubMessenger restricts where you publish and where you subscribe for preventing chaos by like EventBus.
  • You can publish in ViewModel or Fragment.
  • You can subscribe in Activity or Fragment.

Usage

Define a message

The message needs to implement PubSubMessage.

class SampleMessage(val param: String): PubSubMessage

Publish a message

You can call pubSubMessenger.publish(message) in ViewModel or Fragment.

pubSubMessenger.publish(SampleMessage("You can pass parameters via the message"))

Subscribe to messages

You can call pubSubMessenger.subscribe<PubSubMessage> { } in Activity or Fragment.

pubSubMessenger.subscribe<SampleMessage> { message ->
    Log.d(TAG, "Receive $message")
}

Gradle

repositories {
    maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.github.wada811:PubSubMessenger:x.y.z'
}

GitHub