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Learning RxJava - Second Edition

By : Nick Samoylov, Thomas Nield
Book Image

Learning RxJava - Second Edition

By: Nick Samoylov, Thomas Nield

Overview of this book

RxJava is not just a popular library for building asynchronous and event-based applications; it also enables you to create a cleaner and more readable code base. In this book, you’ll cover the core fundamentals of reactive programming and learn how to design and implement reactive libraries and applications. Learning RxJava will help you understand how reactive programming works and guide you in writing your first example in reactive code. You’ll get to grips with the workings of Observable and Subscriber, and see how they are used in different contexts using real-world use cases. The book will also take you through multicasting and caching to help prevent redundant work with multiple Observers. You’ll then learn how to create your own RxJava operators by reusing reactive logic. As you advance, you’ll explore effective tools and libraries to test and debug RxJava code. Finally, you’ll delve into RxAndroid extensions and use Kotlin features to streamline your Android apps. By the end of this book, you'll become proficient in writing reactive code in Java and Kotlin to build concurrent applications, including Android applications.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Foundations of Reactive Programming in Java
5
Section 2: Reactive Operators
12
Section 3: Integration of RxJava applications
Appendix B: Functional Types
Appendix E: Understanding Schedulers

Kotlin basics

Although Kotlin has a standalone compiler and can work with Eclipse, we are going to use IntelliJ IDEA.

A Kotlin project is structured much like a Java project. Following a standard Maven convention, you typically put your Kotlin source code in an src/main/kotlin/ folder instead of an src/main/java/ folder. The Kotlin source code is stored in text files with a .kt extension instead of .java. However, Kotlin files do not have to contain a class sharing the same name as the file.

Creating a Kotlin file

In IntelliJ IDEA, import your Kotlin project, if you haven't done so already. Right-click on the /src/main/kotlin/ folder and navigate to New | Kotlin File/Class, as shown in the following screenshot:

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