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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

Functional types

Here are all the functional types available in RxJava 1., 2., and 3.0 at the time of writing. You may recognize many of these functional types as being almost identical to those in Java 8 (in the java.util.function package) or Google Guava.

However, they were copied to an extent in RxJava to make them available for use in Java 6, 7, and 8. A subtle difference is that RxJava's implementations throw checked exceptions. This eliminates a pain point from RxJava 1.*, where checked exceptions had to be handled in lambda expressions that yielded them.

In the following table, the RxJava 1.* equivalents are listed as well, but note that the SAM column corresponds to the RxJava 2.* and 3.0 type. Another important point is that RxJava 1* functions implement call() and do not support primitives. Also, RxJava 2.* and 3.0 implements a few functional types with primitives...