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Asynchronous Android Programming - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883248
Pages 394 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Steve Liles Steve Liles
Profile icon Steve Liles

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Asynchronous Android Programming Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Asynchronous Programming in Android 2. Performing Work with Looper, Handler, and HandlerThread 3. Exploring the AsyncTask 4. Exploring the Loader 5. Interacting with Services 6. Scheduling Work with AlarmManager 7. Exploring the JobScheduler API 8. Interacting with the Network 9. Asynchronous Work on the Native Layer 10. Network Interactions with GCM 11. Exploring Bus-based Communications 12. Asynchronous Programing with RxJava Index

Composing Observables


As we explained earlier, an Observable interface is defined in a way that allows us to chain and combine different Observables to create complex tasks in a functional and declarative way.

Starting from our previous work, in our next example, we will make use of the RxJava composing feature and execute a second network call that depends on the previous Observable that will translate the text downloaded using a web service before we emit the translated text to the Subscriber.

To execute the translation on the network on a logically separate unit, we will create a new Observable that receives the text to translate, executes the task on the network, and emits the translated text as a String to the following Observable:

Observable<String> translateOnNetwork(final String url,
                                      final String toTranslate) {
  return Observable.create(
    new Observable.OnSubscribe<String>() {
      @Override
      public void call(Subscriber<...
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