RxJava in Android

RxJava is a very popular library for Android development, and there are a lot of other libraries that are based on RxJava, such as RxAndroid and RxBinding.

This section will cover the following topics:

• The RxAndroid library
• The RxBinding library

The RxAndroid library

The RxAndroid library provides a scheduler that uses the main thread. The following example code shows how to use this scheduler:

Flowable.fromIterable(listOf(1, 2, 3))
        .subscribeOn(Schedulers.computation())
        .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
        .subscribe { println(it) }

The preceding snippet shows how to use the observeOn method to handle emitted values on the main thread.

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