Reactive Android, Part 2

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In this section we will attempt to produce the same application as in Part 1, but using RxJava. If you’re not familiar with RxJava, I highly recommend watching a Netflix presentation on the topic. I’ll assume you’re familiar with the basics of the library. As a reminder, we’re exploring different ways of communicating between threads… Read more »

Reactive Android, Part 1

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From what I’ve seen, vast majority of bugs and crashes programmers face on Android are around state and concurrency. These issues cause serious headaches not only in mobile applications, but they have a special flavor in Android. Specifically, all long running operations (network calls, file access, etc) must be done off the main (UI) thread…. Read more »