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Learning RxJava. Reactive, Concurrent, and responsive applications

Learning RxJava. Reactive, Concurrent, and responsive applications

Thomas Nield

Ebook
RxJava is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using Observable sequences for the JVM, allowing developers to build robust applications in less time.

Learning RxJava addresses all the fundamentals of reactive programming to help readers write reactive code, as well as teach them an effective approach to designing and implementing reactive libraries and applications.

Starting with a brief introduction to reactive programming concepts, there is an overview of Observables and Observers, the core components of RxJava, and how to combine different streams of data and events together. You will also learn simpler ways to achieve concurrency and remain highly performant, with no need for synchronization. Later on, we will leverage backpressure and other strategies to cope with rapidly-producing sources to prevent bottlenecks in your application. After covering custom operators, testing, and debugging, the book dives into hands-on examples using RxJava on Android as well as Kotlin.
  • 1. Thinking Reactively
  • 2. Observables and Subscribers
  • 3. Basic Operators
  • 4. Combining Observables
  • 5. Multicasting, Replaying, and Caching
  • 6. Concurrency and Parallelization
  • 7. Switching, Throttling, Windowing, and Buffering
  • 8. Flowables and Backpressure
  • 9. Transformers and Custom Operators
  • 10. Testing and Debugging
  • 11. RxJava on Android
  • 12. Using RxJava with Kotlin New
  • 13. Appendix
  • Title: Learning RxJava. Reactive, Concurrent, and responsive applications
  • Author: Thomas Nield
  • Original title: Learning RxJava. Reactive, Concurrent, and responsive applications
  • ISBN: 9781787123748, 9781787123748
  • Date of issue: 2017-06-20
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_15ky
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing