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Reactive Programming in Kotlin

You're reading from   Reactive Programming in Kotlin Design and build non-blocking, asynchronous Kotlin applications with RXKotlin, Reactor-Kotlin, Android, and Spring

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473026
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rivu Chakraborty Rivu Chakraborty
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Preface 1. A Short Introduction to Reactive Programming 2. Functional Programming with Kotlin and RxKotlin FREE CHAPTER 3. Observables, Observers, and Subjects 4. Introduction to Backpressure and Flowables 5. Asynchronous Data Operators and Transformations 6. More on Operators and Error Handling 7. Concurrency and Parallel Processing in RxKotlin with Schedulers 8. Testing RxKotlin Applications 9. Resource Management and Extending RxKotlin 10. Introduction to Web Programming with Spring for Kotlin Developers 11. REST APIs with Spring JPA and Hibernate 12. Reactive Kotlin and Android

RxKotlin with Retrofit

In Android, we can use RxAndroid in addition to RxKotlin for added Android flavors and benefits, and Retrofit supports them as well.

So, let's start by modifying our build.gradle in favor of ReactiveX. Add the following dependencies to the app level build.gradle:

    implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:adapter-rxjava2:2.3.0 ' 
    implementation 'io.reactivex.rxjava2:rxandroid:2.0.1' 
    implementation 'io.reactivex.rxjava2:rxkotlin:2.1.0' 

The first one will provide Retrofit 2 Adapters for RxJava 2, while the following two add RxAndroid and RxKotlin to the project.

Note that RxKotlin is a wrapper on top of RxJava, so adapters for RxJava 2 will work perfectly with RxKotlin 2.

Now that we have added the dependencies, let's move on by modifying our code to work with Observable/Flowable instead of Call.

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