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

# What are schedulers?

A `Scheduler` is a multithreading construct introduced in RxJava that can run a scheduled unit of work on a thread. Simplistically, you can think of a `Scheduler` as a thread pool, and when a task needs to be executed, it takes a single thread from its pool and runs the necessary task. 

`Scheduler` constructs are used in conjunction with `.subscribeOn()` and `.observeOn()`, two operators that specify where a particular operation should execute. When a `Scheduler` is specified along the `Observable` chain, the `Scheduler` provides a worker that runs the actual block of code. The thread that the scheduled work executes on depends on the `Scheduler` in use.


Learn how Schedulers are used to add asynchronicity to RxJava.

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

Schedulers

What are schedulers?