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Schedulers with Operators

Schedulers with Operators

Learn how Schedulers are used in conjunction with the .subscribeOn() and .observeOn() operators.

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.subscribeOn()

The .subscribeOn() operator is used in the Observable chain to dictate where the Observable should operate–for example, the function inside of .create(). Rewriting the previous example using a Scheduler instead gives us:

Java
Observable<Integer> integerObservable = Observable.create(source -> {
    Log.d(TAG, "In subscribe");
    source.onNext(1);
    source.onNext(2);
    source.onNext(3);
    source.onComplete();
});
Log.d(TAG, "Created Observable");
Log.d(TAG, "Subscribing to Observable");
integerObservable.subscribeOn(Schedulers.newThread())
                 .subscribe(i -> Log.e(TAG, "In onNext(): " + i));
Log.d(TAG, "Finished");

Running the above code is similar to using a Thread in that the operations inside .create() now occurs in a separate thread provided by Schedulers.newThread(). The benefit of this approach over using a Thread is that tacking on a Scheduler to specify where the Observable should execute is declarative. We no longer have to worry about the ...