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Learning RxJava

By : Thomas Nield
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Learning RxJava

By: Thomas Nield

Overview of this book

RxJava is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using Observable sequences for the JVM, allowing developers to build robust applications in less time. Learning RxJava addresses all the fundamentals of reactive programming to help readers write reactive code, as well as teach them an effective approach to designing and implementing reactive libraries and applications. Starting with a brief introduction to reactive programming concepts, there is an overview of Observables and Observers, the core components of RxJava, and how to combine different streams of data and events together. You will also learn simpler ways to achieve concurrency and remain highly performant, with no need for synchronization. Later on, we will leverage backpressure and other strategies to cope with rapidly-producing sources to prevent bottlenecks in your application. After covering custom operators, testing, and debugging, the book dives into hands-on examples using RxJava on Android as well as Kotlin.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Blocking subscribers


Remember how sometimes we have to stop the main thread from racing past an Observable or Flowable that operates on a different thread and keep it from exiting the application before it has a chance to fire? We often prevented this using Thread.sleep(), especially when we used Observable.interval(), subscribeOn(), or observeOn(). The following code shows how we did this typically and kept an Observable.interval() application alive for five seconds:

 import io.reactivex.Observable;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

 public class Launcher {

     public static void main(String[] args) {
         Observable.interval(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
                 .take(5)
                 .subscribe(System.out::println);

         sleep(5000);
     }

     public static void sleep(int millis) {
         try {
             Thread.sleep(millis);
         } catch (InterruptedException e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
         }
     }
 }

When it comes to unit testing, the unit...