RxJava: Design Patterns for Android Developers

Course details

The RxJava library—a Java virtual machine (VM) implementation of Reactive Extensions—extends the observer pattern, making it easier for Android developers to program apps that respond to user events and data changes. In this project-based course, instructor Jon Bott helps to familiarize developers with key aspects of RxJava as he goes over some simple design patterns that work with reactive programming. Learn about traits, observables, threading, and more—as well as how to add RxJava to a layered architecture such as Model-View-Presenter (MVP) or Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM). Plus, review real-world use cases that can help you gain a practical understanding of these concepts.

Learning objectives
What is RxJava?
Observables
Shortcuts for creating observables
Subjects
Traits
Grouping API service calls
Binding
Threading and UI controls

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know
03 - The project we'll be building
04 - Set up our starter project

1. The Basics

05 - What is RxJava
06 - Observables
07 - Observable types
08 - BehaviorRelay - Imperative
09 - BehaviorRelay - Declarative
10 - Subjects
11 - Creating an onError method
12 - Creating an onComplete method
13 - Creating a simple observable
14 - Shortcuts for creating observables
15 - Traits

2. Simple UI Example

16 - Overview
17 - JSONPlaceholder
18 - Simple networking
19 - Rx single creation
20 - Rx single subscription

3. The Model Layer

21 - MVP and MVVM - Architecture with Rx
22 - Model layer
23 - Database - From model layer to UI
24 - Database - Showing our result
25 - Network layer overview
26 - Network - Network layer
27 - Network - From model layer to UI
28 - Network - Showing our results
29 - Network - Using a more reactive way

4. Grouping API Service Calls

30 - Overview and task creation
31 - Wrap task in observable
32 - Observable zip
33 - Showing our results
34 - Handling null values
35 - Handling exceptions
36 - Failure result type

5. Binding to the UI

37 - Prepare reactive presenter
38 - Simple binding
39 - Simple list binding
40 - RxBinding TextView
41 - RecyclerView - Binding setup
42 - RecyclerView - Seeing it in action
43 - Sectioned data source setup
44 - Sectioned data source in action

6. Threading

45 - Threading and UI controls
46 - observeOn vs. subscribeOn gotcha

Conclusion

47 - Next steps

RxJava: Design Patterns for Android Developers

Authors

Jon Bott