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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RxJava

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 library and want to start integrating it into their apps.

Reactive Programming with RxJava

# Pull-based to push-based paradigm
One of the challenges of adding RxJava as one of the libraries to projects is that it fundamentally changes the way that we reason about our code.


RxJava requires us to think about data as being pushed rather than being _pulled_. We covered this topic in our earlier lesson, Push vs. Pull.(https://www.educative.io/courses/reactive-programming-rxjava/observable-and-observer#Push-vs.-Pull)). While the concept itself is simple, changing a full codebase that is based on a pull paradigm can be a bit daunting. Although consistency is always ideal, we might not always have the privilege to make this transition throughout our entire code base all at once, and so an incremental approach may be required.

Learn how to dwell in the reactive world.

Getting Started

Part 1: RxJava Basics

Reactive Programming

RxJava Core Components

Operators

Multithreading

Part 2: RxJava Advanced

Reactive Modeling on Android

Backpressure

Error Handling

Conclusion

Bridging the Non-reactive and Reactive Worlds

Pull-based to push-based paradigm