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Reactive Programming with RxJava

Gain insights into RxJava's principles, explore its integration into Android, and discover why it’s the leading reactive library for enhanced app development.

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62 Lessons

32h

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into RxJava's principles, explore its integration into Android, and discover why it’s the leading reactive library for enhanced app development.

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Course Overview

Since its inception in 2012, RxJava has slowly gained in popularity for enabling reactive programming on Android. It is now deemed as the go-to and leading reactive library. Many companies have adopted the reactive way of programming, including Google, with its release of Android Architecture Components, which has many reactive elements in its design. In this course, you will learn the fundamental principles of RxJava which will serve as a foundation for experienced Android developers who are new to the li...Show More

What You'll Learn

Learn basic and advanced concepts in RxJava

Learn how to model non-reactive Android world into the reactive world

Learn basic and advanced concepts in RxJava

Course Content

Getting Started

1 Lessons

Get familiar with RxJava basics and advanced concepts through practical Android examples.

Course Overview

Part 1: RxJava Basics

1 Lessons

Discover the logic behind reactive programming, RxJava components, operators, and concurrency principles.

An Overview

Reactive Programming

6 Lessons

Explore asynchronous programming with RxJava, its history, essential traits, and practical applications.

Introduction

A Brief History

RxJava in Action

RxJava’s Essential Characteristics

Points to Ponder

Quiz

RxJava Core Components

10 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of RxJava core components, enabling reactive programming and managing asynchronous operations.

Streams

The 3 Os

Observable and Observer

Operator

Marble Diagrams

Creating an Observable

Cold vs. Hot Observables

Lazy Emissions

Quiz

Challenge

Operators

10 Lessons

Deepen your knowledge of RxJava operators for transforming, combining, aggregating, and optimizing data streams.

Introduction

Transform: Map and Filter

Transform: FlatMap and ConcatMap

Transform: Skip, Take, First, and Last

Combine: Merge, Concat, and Zip

Aggregate: ToList, Reduce, and Collect

Utility Operators: DoOnEach, and Cache

Reusing Operator Chains

Quiz

Challenge

Multithreading

9 Lessons

Tackle RxJava's threading model, Schedulers, and achieving concurrency in reactive programming.

Introduction

Default Synchronicity of RxJava

Adding Asynchronicity

Schedulers

Schedulers with Operators

Scheduler Behavior

Achieving True Concurrency

Quiz

Challenge

Part 2: RxJava Advanced

1 Lessons

Master Reactive Modeling in Android, backpressure mechanisms, and advanced error handling techniques.

An Overview

Reactive Modeling on Android

11 Lessons

Learn how to use RxJava for reactive Android development and efficient data handling.

Introduction

Bridging the Non-reactive and Reactive Worlds

RxJava's Consequences: Method Signature

RxJava's Consequences: Laziness

Reactive Everything: Long Operations

Reactive Everything: Completable, Single, and Maybe

Reactive Everything: Replacing Callbacks

Reactive Everything: Multicasting

Reactive Everything: View Events

Disposable and the Activity/Fragment Lifecycle

Quiz

Backpressure

6 Lessons

Get started with managing backpressure in RxJava using Flowable, Subscriber, and throttling techniques.

Introduction

Flowable

Subscriber

Throttling and Buffering

Quiz

Challenge

10.

Error Handling

6 Lessons

Master the steps to handle errors in RxJava, ensuring resilient data streams.

Introduction

Errors Along the Chain

Error-handling Operators

Retry Operators

Undelivered Errors

Quiz

11.

Conclusion

1 Lessons

Apply your skills to advancing as an Android developer after completing this course.

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