Advanced Tips

Here are a set of additional tips that can enhance the use of this library.

Composed Events

Events can be composed of objects that will be transferred over IPC. To easily facilitate this you can implement the IObjectIpc interface. For example:

public class ExampleObject implements IObjectIpc 
{

}

Simple Events

Instead of implementing all the methods of IEventIpc, a lightweight version of the events can be quickly created by extending EventIpcSimple.

public class ExampleEvent extends EventIpcSimple
{
    public ExampleEvent()
    {
    }

    public ExampleEvent(Parcel in)
    {
        super.readFromParcel(in);
    }
}

Simple Events Level 2

You can also extend EventIpcSimple and still allow the event to transfer objects.

public class ExampleEvent extends EventIpcSimple
{
    private ExampleObject mExampleObject;

    public ExampleEvent(ExampleObject exampleObject)
    {
        mExampleObject = exampleObject;
    }

    public ExampleEvent(Parcel in)
    {
        readFromParcel(in);
    }

    @Override
    public void readFromParcel(Parcel in)
    {
        mExampleObject = (ExampleObject) ParcelHelper.getInstance()
                .createFromParcel(in, ExampleObject.class);
    }

    @Override
    public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags)
    {
        ParcelHelper.getInstance().writeToParcel(dest, flags, mExampleObject);
    }

    public ExampleObject getTestObject()
    {
        return mExampleObject;
    }
}