But on the brighter side it does support ordered broadcast Not really. There is no sendOrderedBroadcast() on LocalBroadcastManager, and the priority on the IntentFilter does not appear to be used. If you mean “the broadcasts will be delivered in the order that I registered the receivers”, that might be the current behavior, but there is … Read more
The event bus and Otto are not “recommended ways” by the Android developer guide primarily because they are third party libraries to simplify the task. And I believe Otto is fairly new, so older guides obviously aren’t using it. I personally like Otto, it’s what I use and I haven’t had any problems with it … Read more
To post from any thread (main or background) and receive on the main thread, try something like public class MainThreadBus extends Bus { private final Handler mHandler = new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()); @Override public void post(final Object event) { if (Looper.myLooper() == Looper.getMainLooper()) { super.post(event); } else { mHandler.post(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { MainThreadBus.super.post(event); … Read more