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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

Concatenating factories and operators

Concatenation is remarkably similar to merging, but with an important nuance: it emits items of each provided Observable sequentially and in the order specified. It does not move on to the next Observable until the current one calls onComplete(). This makes it great to ensure that the merged Observable starts emitting in a guaranteed order. However, it is often a poor choice for infinite Observable, as it will indefinitely hold up the queue and forever leave the Observable that is next in line waiting.

We will cover the factories and operators used for concatenation. You will find that they are much like the merging ones, except that they have sequential behavior.

You should prefer concatenation when you want to guarantee that the concatenated Observable instances fire their emissions in the specified order. If you do not care about ordering...
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