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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

Reducing operators

You will likely have moments when you need to take a series of emitted values and aggregate them into a single value (usually emitted through a Single). We will cover a few operators that accomplish this. Note that nearly all of these operators only work on a finite Observable that calls onComplete() because, typically, we can aggregate only finite datasets. We will explore this behavior as we cover these operators.

count()

The count() operator counts the number of emitted items and emits the result through a Single once onComplete() is called. Here is an example:

import io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Observable;

public class Ch3_22 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Observable.just("Alpha...