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Reactive Programming in Kotlin

By : Rivu Chakraborty
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Reactive Programming in Kotlin

By: Rivu Chakraborty

Overview of this book

In today's app-driven era, when programs are asynchronous, and responsiveness is so vital, reactive programming can help you write code that's more reliable, easier to scale, and better-performing. Reactive programming is revolutionary. With this practical book, Kotlin developers will first learn how to view problems in the reactive way, and then build programs that leverage the best features of this exciting new programming paradigm. You will begin with the general concepts of Reactive programming and then gradually move on to working with asynchronous data streams. You will dive into advanced techniques such as manipulating time in data-flow, customizing operators and provider and how to use the concurrency model to control asynchronicity of code and process event handlers effectively. You will then be introduced to functional reactive programming and will learn to apply FRP in practical use cases in Kotlin. This book will also take you one step forward by introducing you to Spring 5 and Spring Boot 2 using Kotlin. By the end of the book, you will be able to build real-world applications with reactive user interfaces as well as you'll learn to implement reactive programming paradigms in Android.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about operators and the types of operators available, and we learned in detail about operators, especially the ones useful for transforming, filtering, and accumulating emissions by the source producer. We also learned about the necessity of the error handling operators, which we will cover in the next chapter.

This chapter and the next chapter, that is, Chapter 6More on Operators and Error Handling are highly related; while discussing topics in this chapter, we got a glance about the contents of the next chapter. In the next chapter as well, we will refer to and use the contents learned in this chapter.

While in this chapter we focused on the basics of operators, operator types, and operators specifically useful for filtering, transforming, and accumulating emissions (aka data), in the next chapter, we will cover the operators useful to combine Observable/Flowables and error handling and for conditional purposes.

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