RxJava essentials : learn reactive programming to create awesome Android and Java apps /: learn reactive programming to create awesome Android and Java apps. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Learn reactive programming to create awesome Android and Java apps
• Further Information: Note: Ivan Morgillo.
• Authors: Morgillo, Ivan
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: RX -- from .NET to RxJava; Microsoft Reactive Extensions; Landing in the Java world -- Netflix RxJava; What's different in RxJava; Summary; Chapter 2: Why Observables?; The Observer pattern; When do you use the Observer pattern?; The RxJava Observer pattern toolkit; Observable; Hot and cold Observables; Creating an Observable; Subject = Observable + Observer; PublishSubject; BehaviorSubject; ReplaySubject; AsyncSubject; Summary; Chapter 3: Hello Reactive World. Start the engine!Dependencies; RxAndroid; Utils; Lombok; Butter Knife; Retrolambda; Our first Observable; Creating an Observable from a list; A few more examples; just(); repeat(); defer(); range(); interval(); timer(); Summary; Chapter 4: Filtering Observables; Filtering a sequence; Let's take what we need; Take; TakeLast; Once and only once; Distinct; DistinctUntilChanged; First and last; Skip and SkipLast; ElementAt; Sampling; Timeout; Debounce; Summary; Chapter 5: Transforming Observables; The *map family; Map; FlatMap; ConcatMap; FlatMapIterable; SwitchMap; Scan; GroupBy; Buffer; Window. CastSummary; Chapter 6: Combining Observables; Merge; Zip; Join; combineLatest; And, Then, and When; Switch; StartWith; Summary; Chapter 7: Schedulers -- Defeating the Android MainThread Issue; StrictMode; Avoiding blocking I/O operations; Schedulers; Schedulers.io(); Schedulers.computation(); Schedulers.immediate(); Schedulers.newThread(); Schedulers.trampoline(); Nonblocking I/O operations; SubscribeOn and ObserveOn; Handling a long task; Executing a network task; Summary; Chapter 8: REST in Peace -- RxJava and Retrofit; The project goal; Retrofit; The app structure. Creating the Activity classCreating the RecyclerView adapter; Retrieving the weather forecast; Opening the website; Summary; Index.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume), illustrations
• Subjects: 005.133; COMPUTERS -- Programming -- Mobile Devices; Computer programming; Application software -- Development; Java (Computer program language); Computer science; Java (Computer program language); Object-oriented programming (Computer science); Application software -- Development; Computer programming; Java (Computer program language); COMPUTERS -- Internet -- Application Development; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784393571; 1784393576; 1784399108; 9781784399108
• Related ISBNs: 9781784399108
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from cover (Safari, viewed June 10, 2015).
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