We assume that you are fairly comfortable with Java and know how to use classes, interfaces, methods, properties, variables, static/non-static scopes, and collections. If you are not familiar with concurrency or multithreading, that is okay. RxJava makes these advanced topics much more accessible.
Have your favorite Java development environment ready, be it IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, NetBeans, or any other environment of your choosing. We will be using IntelliJ IDEA, although it should not matter or have an impact on the examples in this book. We recommend that you have a project building framework such as Gradle or Maven, which we will explain how to use shortly.
In this chapter, before diving deeper into RxJava, we will cover some core topics:
- A brief history of Reactive Extensions and RxJava
- Thinking reactively
- Leveraging RxJava
- Setting up your first RxJava...
