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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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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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

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In this chapter, you learned about concurrent execution and parallelism and how to achieve multithreading in RxKotlin. Multithreading is a necessity in today's app driven era, as modern users don't like to wait, or, to be blocked, you need to constantly switch threads to perform computations and UX operations.

In this chapter, you learned how schedulers in RxKotlin can help you, or, rather, how schedulers abstract the complexities of multithreading.

While concurrent execution and parallelism is an essential part of modern application development, testing is probably the most crucial part. We cannot deliver any app without testing it. Agile methodology (though we are not discussing agile here) says we should perform testing repeatedly and with every iteration of our product (application) development.

In the Chapter 8, Testing RxKotlin Applications, we will discuss testing. Don't dare miss it out, turn the page right now!

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