public interface Observer



This interface was deprecated in API level 33.
This interface has been deprecated. See the Observable class for further information.

A class can implement the Observer interface when it wants to be informed of changes in observable objects.

Summary

Public methods

abstract void update(Observable o, Object arg)

This method is called whenever the observed object is changed.

Public methods

update

public abstract void update (Observable o, 
                Object arg)

This method is called whenever the observed object is changed. An application calls an Observable object's notifyObservers method to have all the object's observers notified of the change.

Parameters
o Observable: the observable object.
arg Object: an argument passed to the notifyObservers method.

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