Fragmented - Android Developer Podcast

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

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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]
                • Hot  vs Cold observables - From the RxJs wiki [github.com]
                • uses js instead of java, but concepts are the same and this is the best explanation I’ve found so far.
                  • RxJava wiki on Backpressure [github.com]:
                  • Ring buffer size: System.setProperty("rx.ring-buffer.size", "128");
                  • Issue with changing buffer ring size [github.com]
                  • It’s 16 on Android, down from 1024 originally. :P So it’s actually 64x smaller.
                    • Awesome picks:

                    Dan Lew:

                    • Simple Made Easy (talk by Rich Hickey creator of Clojure) [infohq]
                    • Victor by Trello (SVG assets) [github.com]

                      • Donn:

                      • Realm Object Database [realm.io]

                        • Kaushik:

                        • Therapeutic Refactoring (talk by Katrina Owen) [youtube.com]
                          • Contact
                          Dan Lew
                          • @danlew42 [twitter.com]
                          • Dan Lew’s blog [danlew.net]
                            • Donn Felker
                            • @donnfelker [twitter.com]
                            • donnfelker.com
                              • Kaushik Gopal
                              • @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]
                              • kaush.co
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