Reactive Programming with RxJava

Takeaway Skills

Learn basic and advanced concepts in RxJava

Learn how to model non-reactive Android world into the reactive world

Learn basic and advanced concepts in RxJava

Learn how to model non-reactive Android world into the reactive world

Course Overview

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 Archi... See More

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Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Course Contents

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1. Getting Started

Course Overview

2. Part 1: RxJava Basics

An Overview

3. Reactive Programming

Introduction

A Brief History

RxJava in Action

RxJava’s Essential Characteristics

Points to Ponder

Quiz

4. RxJava Core Components

Streams

The 3 Os

Observable and Observer

Operator

Marble Diagrams

Creating an Observable

Cold vs. Hot Observables

Lazy Emissions

Quiz

Challenge

5. Operators

Introduction

Transform: Map and Filter

Transform: FlatMap and ConcatMap

Transform: Skip, Take, First, and Last

Combine: Merge, Concat, and Zip

Aggregate: ToList, Reduce, and Collect

Utility Operators: DoOnEach, and Cache

Reusing Operator Chains

Quiz

Challenge

6. Multithreading

Introduction

Default Synchronicity of RxJava

Adding Asynchronicity

Schedulers

Schedulers with Operators

Scheduler Behavior

Achieving True Concurrency

Quiz

Challenge

7. Part 2: RxJava Advanced

An Overview

8. Reactive Modeling on Android

Introduction

Bridging the Non-reactive and Reactive Worlds

RxJava's Consequences: Method Signature

RxJava's Consequences: Laziness

Reactive Everything: Long Operations

Reactive Everything: Completable, Single, and Maybe

Reactive Everything: Replacing Callbacks

Reactive Everything: Multicasting

Reactive Everything: View Events

Disposable and the Activity/Fragment Lifecycle

Quiz

9. Backpressure

Introduction

Flowable

Subscriber

Throttling and Buffering

Quiz

Challenge

10. Error Handling

Introduction

Errors Along the Chain

Error-handling Operators

Retry Operators

Undelivered Errors

Quiz

11. Conclusion

It's a Wrap!