Disposable and the Activity/Fragment Lifecycle
Take a look at various libraries used to unsubscribe from an Observable.
We'll cover the following
Disposable
So far, we have overlooked a key component in a reactive stream: the Disposable
. A Disposable
is returned as a result from a subscription so that we can control when to unsubscribe. This is so that the underlying Observable
can stop emitting events. Failure to do so can cause unwanted memory leaks that are hard to trace.
When dealing with the Activity
or Fragment
lifecycle, a good place to unsubscribe would be when the Activity
or Fragment
is no longer needed—that is, in the .onDestroy()
lifecycle.
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