Summary
In this chapter, we touched on various parts of the rich RxAndroid ecosystem to build reactive Android applications. We covered Retrolambda so we can leverage lambdas with earlier versions of Android that only support Java 6. This way, we do not have to resort to anonymous inner classes to express our RxJava operators. We also touched on RxAndroid, which is the core of the reactive Android ecosystem, and it only contains Android Schedulers. To plug in your various Android widgets, controls, and domain-specific events, you will need to rely on other libraries, such as RxBinding.
In the next chapter, we will cover using RxJava with Kotlin. We will learn how to use this exciting new language, which has essentially become the Swift of Android, and why it works so well with RxJava.