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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

Ambiguous operators

After covering merging and concatenation, let's get an easy combining operation out of the way. The Observable.amb() factory (amb stands for ambiguous) accepts an Iterable<Observable<T>> object as a parameter and emits the values of the first Observable that emits, while the others are disposed of. This is helpful when there are multiple sources of the same data or events and you want the fastest one to win.

Here, we have two interval sources and we combine them with the Observable.amb() factory. If one emits every second while the other emits every 300 milliseconds, the latter is going to win because it emits more often:

import io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Observable;

public class
Ch4_12 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
//emit every second
Observable<String> src1 =
Observable.interval(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS...
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