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Learning RxJava
Learning RxJava

Learning RxJava: Reactive, Concurrent, and responsive applications

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Key benefits

  • *Explore the essential tools and operators RxJava provides, and know which situations to use them in
  • *Delve into Observables and Subscribers, the core components of RxJava used for building scalable and performant reactive applications
  • *Delve into the practical implementation of tools to effectively take on complex tasks such as concurrency and backpressure

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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.

Who is this book for?

The primary audience for this book is developers with at least a fundamental mastery of Java. Some readers will likely be interested in RxJava to make programs more resilient, concurrent, and scalable. Others may be checking out reactive programming just to see what it is all about, and to judge whether it can solve any problems they may have.

What you will learn

  • • Learn the features of RxJava 2 that bring about many significant changes, including new reactive types such as Flowable, Single, Maybe, and Completable
  • • Understand how reactive programming works and the mindset to "think reactively"
  • • Demystify the Observable and how it quickly expresses data and events as sequences
  • • Learn the various Rx operators that transform, filter, and combine data and event sequences
  • • Leverage multicasting to push data to multiple destinations, and cache and replay them
  • • Discover how concurrency and parallelization work in RxJava, and how it makes these traditionally complex tasks trivial to implement
  • • Apply RxJava and Retrolambda to the Android domain to create responsive Android apps with better user experiences
  • • Use RxJava with the Kotlin language to express RxJava more idiomatically with extension functions, data classes, and other Kotlin features

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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
Thinking Reactively Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Observables and Subscribers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Basic Operators Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Combining Observables Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Multicasting, Replaying, and Caching Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Concurrency and Parallelization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Switching, Throttling, Windowing, and Buffering Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Flowables and Backpressure Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Transformers and Custom Operators Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Testing and Debugging Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
RxJava on Android Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using RxJava for Kotlin New Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Everardo López Nov 25, 2017
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Excelente! Altamente recomendable.
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Cliente Amazon Oct 02, 2017
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Il paradigma reactive viene descritto con ampio dettaglio e molti esempi.Naturalmente serve di base una buona conoscenza di Java, anche se gli esempi ripetono continuamente molti passaggi banali.
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Wil C Apr 27, 2018
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This is a fantastic, comprehensive overview of RxJava2. This goes well beyond the public javadoc (which is also fantastic as compared to most libs). Most of the book is also applicable to RxJs (4.x & 5.x). The book gives a framework/context for understanding the hundreds of available operators and good advice about when to use things.
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Corn Starch Apr 11, 2020
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I read so many articles and even another highly rated rxjava book. This is by far the most effective book and I'm finally learning!
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Ótimo livro. O autor tem uma didática muito boa, abordando os temas sobre programação reativa com rxjava 2 de forma simples e objetiva
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