The title says it all. I'm just wondering because I am trying to understand what asynchronous programming is and it seems similar to event driven programming I learned for swing and libgdx.
Asynchronous programming is when you run long running tasks in the background, so that you don't have a blocking UI. Event driven programming is when the application in question is listening for events, say a user interaction or a notification to be received, and then a task is performed. They are not the same. There may be listeners for user interactions or notifications. That's a different issue.