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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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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

Why should I learn RxJava?

ReactiveX and RxJava address many problems that programmers face daily, allowing them to express business logic and spend less time engineering code. Have you ever struggled with concurrency, event handling, obsolete data states, and exception recovery? What about making your code more maintainable, reusable, and evolvable so it can keep up with your business? It might be presumptuous to call reactive programming a silver bullet that eliminates these problems, but it certainly is a progressive leap toward addressing them.

There is also a growing user demand to make applications responsive in real time. Reactive programming allows you to quickly analyze and work with live data sources such as Twitter feeds or stock prices. It can also cancel and redirect work, scale with concurrency, and cope with rapidly emitting data. Composing events and data as streams...

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Learning RxJava - Second Edition
Published in: Feb 2020
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789950151
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