004: The RxJava show with Dan Lew (Part 2)

In this episode of Fragmented, Donn and Kaushik continue their conversation with Dan Lew on RxJava. In the final part of this 2 part series, they talk about many useful RxJava operators and other intricacies of using RxJava in Android.

Show Notes

RxJava Operators:

• Observable.just [reactivex.io]
• Observable.from [reactivex.io]
• Observable.defer [reactivex.io]
  • Using defer to handle “Old, Slow Code” [blog.danlew.net]
• Observable.map [reactivex.io]
• Observable.flatmap [reactivex.io]
  • map vs flatmap (alchemist and cheese shredding analogy [reddit])
• Observable.zip [reactivex.io]
• Observable.combineLatest [reactivex.io]
• Observable. switchMap [reactivex.io]
• Observable.distinctUntilChanged [reactivex.io]
• Observable.lift explanation [reactivex.io]
• Observable.compose
  • Don’t break the chain (using compose) [blog.danlew.net]
• Observable.filter [reactivex.io]
• Observable.take [reactivex.io]
• subscribeOn vs observeOn [stackoverflow.com]
• Understanding debounce, buffer, debouncedBuffer [nerds.weddingpartyapp.com]

RxJava Components:

• Subjects: when is it appropriate to use [.net but still applies] [[davesexton.com] 19]
• Implementing an event bus using RxJava [nerds.weddingpartyapp.com]
• RxJava plugins [github.com]
  • RxJavaDebug plugin - for hooking to start/end/error [github.com]
• .toBlocking() [reactivx.io]
• Composite Subscriptions [reactivex.io]

Retrolambda

• Retrolambda library [github.com]
• Retrolambda gradle plugin [github.com]
• Common Issue with Retrolambda (NoClassDefFoundError) [github.com]

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