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Learning RxJava

You're reading from   Learning RxJava Build concurrent applications using reactive programming with the latest features of RxJava 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789950151
Length 412 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nick Samoylov Nick Samoylov
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Foundations of Reactive Programming in Java
2. Thinking Reactively FREE CHAPTER 3. Observable and Observer 4. Basic Operators 5. Section 2: Reactive Operators
6. Combining Observables 7. Multicasting, Replaying, and Caching 8. Concurrency and Parallelization 9. Switching, Throttling, Windowing, and Buffering 10. Flowable and Backpressure 11. Transformers and Custom Operators 12. Section 3: Integration of RxJava applications
13. Testing and Debugging 14. RxJava on Android 15. Using RxJava for Kotlin 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Introducing Lambda Expressions 1. Appendix B: Functional Types 2. Appendix C: Mixing Object-Oriented and Reactive Programming 3. Appendix D: Materializing and Dematerializing 4. Appendix E: Understanding Schedulers

Summary

We covered a lot of ground in this chapter, and hopefully, by now, you are starting to see that RxJava has a lot of practical applications. We covered various operators that suppress and transform emissions as well as reducing them to a single emission in some form. You learned how RxJava provides robust ways to recover from errors as well as to get visibility into what the Observable chain is doing with action operators.

If you want to learn more about RxJava operators, there are many resources online. Marble diagrams are a popular form of Rx documentation, visually showing how each operator works. The rxmarbles.com (http://rxmarbles.com) site is a popular, interactive web app that allows you to drag marble emissions and see the affected behavior with each operator. There is also an RxMarbles Android App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moonfleet.rxmarbles...

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