Android Tutorial => Creating and Using Custom Annotations

Example

For creating custom annotations we need to decide

Target - on which these annotations will work on like field level, method level, type level etc.
Retention - to what level annotation will be available.

For this, we have built in custom annotations. Check out these mostly used ones:

@Target

@Retention

Creating Custom Annotation

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE) // will not be available in compiled class   
@Target(ElementType.METHOD) // can be applied to methods only
@interface CustomAnnotation{  
      int value();    
}

Using Custom Annotation

class Foo{  
  @CustomAnnotation(value = 1)  // will be used by an annotation processor
  public void foo(){..}  
}

the value provided inside @CustomAnnotation will be consumed by an Annotationprocessor may be to generate code at compile time etc.

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