RxJava for Android Developers: with ReactiveX and FRP

RxJava for Android Developers: with ReactiveX and FRP, 9781617293368 (1617293369), Manning Publications, 2019

Summary

RxJava for Android Developers teaches you how to build fast, fluid, and reactive mobile apps for Android with RxJava.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

For Android developers, writing multithreaded apps can be as challenging as it is necessary. RxJava simplifies complex threading operations, maintaining proper synchronization as you switch seamlessly from thread to thread. RxJava also brings the benefits of reactive programming to your apps—that means better real-time responsiveness, the holy grail for every Android developer.

About the Book

RxJava for Android Developers begins by inviting you to think about programming and data the reactive way. This engaging, hands-on essential reference introduces you to the central pattern of RxJava for Android, then explains the View Model before exploring highly sought-after app features like chat clients and elegant transitions. Finally, you'll look at high-level design concerns and architectural approaches and frameworks that work well with Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) thinking.

What's inside

An introduction to reactive programming
Easier thread management
Improving UI responsiveness
Thinking asynchronously
Building a working chat client

About the Reader

Readers should have some experience building Android applications. No experience with RxJava is needed.

About the Author

Timo Tuominen has used FRP and RxJava extensively while working with Futurice as an architect of a major Android project for Samsung.

Table of Contents

PART 1 - Core reactive programming

PART 2 - Architectures in RxJava

PART 3 - Advanced RxJava architectures

Introduction to reactive programming
Networking with observables
Building data processing chains
Connecting the user interface with networking
Advanced RxJava
Reactive view models
Developing with view models
Expanding existing Rx apps
Testing reactive code
Advanced architectures: Chat client 1
Advanced architectures: Chat client 2
Transitions with Rx
Making a maps client

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