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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

Replaying and caching

Multicasting also allows caching values that are shared across multiple observers. This may sound surprising, but when you think about it long enough, you may realize this makes sense. If we are sharing data across multiple observers, it makes sense that any caching feature would be shared across observers too.

Replaying and caching data is a multicasting activity, and we will explore now how to do it safely and efficiently with RxJava.

Replaying

The replay() operator is a powerful way to hold onto previous emissions and re-emit them when a new Observer comes in. It returns ConnectableObservable, which both multicasts emissions and emits previous emissions. It emits the cached values immediately when...