how to use greenrobot to pass data to activity or fragment that has not been initialized yet?

Question

I tried to use greenrobot pass data between activities and fragment,but I couldn't find a suitable tutorial that show how do it in detail. Based on what I have read so far I wrote some thing like this,but it doesn't work.how can I use green robot to pass data to an activity or fragment that has not been inialized yet?

MainActivity :

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    EventBus.getDefault().post(new String("We are the champions"));
    Intent intent = new Intent("com.test.Activity_Lessons");
    startActivity(intent);
}

Activity_Lessons :

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    //Some initializations
    EventBus.getDefault().register(this);
    //Other Stuff
}

public void onEventMainThread(String s){
    Toast.makeText(getActivity(), s, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

The event handler is never called here.what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

EventBus has two methods for posting and registering events.In cases which activity or fragment is not yet initialized,we can use registerSticky and postSticky instead of register and post.

here is my own corrected code:

MainActivity :

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    EventBus.getDefault().postSticky(new String("We are the champions"));
    Intent intent = new Intent("com.test.Activity_Lessons");
    startActivity(intent);
}

Activity_Lessons :

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    //Some initializations
    EventBus.getDefault().registerSticky(this);
    //Other Stuff
}

public void onEventMainThread(String s){
    Toast.makeText(getActivity(), s, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

Answer 2

I think you forgot to register your activity.

try to add the following: MainActivity:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  EventBus.getDefault().post(new String("We are the champions"));
  EventBus.getDefault().register(this);
  Intent intent = new Intent("com.test.Activity_Lessons");
  startActivity(intent);
}

@Override
public void onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy();
    EventBus.getDefault().unregister(this);
}

Answer 3

To add to Armin and David answers, I made postSticky work only after writing the subcriber's annotation like this :

@Subscribe(sticky = true, threadMode = ThreadMode.MAIN)

as stated in EventBus docs for Sticky Events

Answer 4

Armin's answer (the first answer checked as accepted) is right.

But if you are using EventBus 3.0.0 (which is the latest version at the moment) or higher, you can't use this:

EventBus.getDefault().registerSticky(this);

That's because the registerSticky method is deprecated and removed, you can just use the register method like this:

EventBus.getDefault().register(this);

Hope this will help developers using up-to-date libraries and techiques. Cheers!