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You're reading from Learning RxJava Build concurrent applications using reactive programming with the latest features of RxJava 3

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789950151

Length 412 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

RxJava

Concepts

Reactive Programming

Authors (2):

Nick Samoylov

Thomas Nield

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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

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Appendix A: Introducing Lambda Expressions

Introducing lambda expressions

1. Appendix B: Functional Types

Functional types

2. Appendix C: Mixing Object-Oriented and Reactive Programming

Mixing object-oriented and reactive programming

3. Appendix D: Materializing and Dematerializing

Materializing and dematerializing

4. Appendix E: Understanding Schedulers

Understanding Schedulers

Using RxJava for Kotlin

In our final chapter, we will apply RxJava to an exciting new frontier of the JVM: the Kotlin language.

Kotlin was developed by JetBrains, the company behind IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and several other major IDEs and developer tools. For some time, JetBrains used Java to build its products, but after 2010, JetBrains began to question whether it was the best language to meet their needs and modern demands. After investigating existing languages, they decided to build an open source language of their own. In 2016 (5 years later), Kotlin 1.0 was released. In 2017, Kotlin 1.1 was released to a growing community of users. Shortly afterward, Google announced Kotlin as an officially supported language for Android.

Kotlin is a language that can quickly be picked up by Java developers within a few days. If you want to learn Kotlin in detail, there is an excellent...

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Authors (2)

Nick Samoylov

Nick Samoylov graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, working as a theoretical physicist and learning to program as a tool for testing his mathematical models. After the demise of the USSR, Nick created and successfully ran a software company, but was forced to close it under the pressure of governmental and criminal rackets. In 1999, with his wife Luda and two daughters, he emigrated to the USA and has been living in Colorado since then, working as a Java programmer. In his free time, Nick likes to write and hike in the Rocky Mountains.

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Nield

Thomas Nield is a business consultant for Southwest Airlines in Schedule Initiatives, and a maintainer for RxJavaFX and RxKotlin. Early in his career, he became fascinated with technology and its role in business analytics. After becoming proficient in Java, Kotlin, Python, SQL, and reactive programming, he became an open source contributor and an author/speaker at O'Reilly Media. He is passionate about sharing what he learns and enabling others with new skill sets. He enjoys making technical content relatable and relevant to those unfamiliar with it or who are intimidated by it. He is interested in data science, reactive programming, and the Kotlin language. He has also authored the book Getting Started with SQL, by O'Reilly Media.

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