RxJava and Other Reactive Streams
Explore the use of RxJava and other reactive streams as alternatives to Kotlin coroutines for asynchronous programming. Understand the advantages and complexities of reactive streams, including concurrency and thread management, and how coroutines offer a simpler solution for managing asynchronous tasks.
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An alternative approach that is popular in Java (both in Android and backend) is using reactive streams (or Reactive Extensions): RxJava, or its successor, Reactor. With this approach, all operations happen inside a data stream that can be started, processed, and observed. These streams support thread switching and concurrent processing, so they're often used to parallelize processing in ...