004: The RxJava show with Dan Lew (Part 2)

In this episode of Fragmented, Donn and Kaushik continue their conversation with Dan Lew on RxJava. In the final part of this 2 part series, they talk about many useful RxJava operators and other intricacies of using RxJava in Android. Show Notes RxJava Operators: Observable.just [reactivex.io] Observable.from [reactivex.io] Observable.defer [reactivex.io] Using defer to handle “Old, Slow Code” [blog.danlew.net] Observable.map [reactivex.io] Observable.flatmap [reactivex.io] map vs flatmap (alchemist and cheese shredding analogy [reddit]) Observable.zip [reactivex.io] Observable.combineLatest [reactivex.io] Observable. switchMap [reactivex.io] Observable.distinctUntilChanged [reactivex.io] Observable.lift explanation [reactivex.io] Observable.compose Don’t break the chain (using compose) [blog.danlew.net] Observable.filter [reactivex.io] Observable.take [reactivex.io] subscribeOn vs observeOn [stackoverflow.com] Understanding debounce, buffer, debouncedBuffer [nerds.weddingpartyapp.com] RxJava Components: Subjects: when is it appropriate to use [.net but still applies] [[davesexton.com] 19] Implementing an event bus using RxJava [nerds.weddingpartyapp.com] RxJava plugins [github.com] RxJavaDebug plugin - for hooking to start/end/error [github.com] .toBlocking() [reactivx.io] Composite Subscriptions [reactivex.io] Retrolambda Retrolambda library [github.com] Retrolambda gradle plugin [github.com] Common Issue with Retrolambda (NoClassDefFoundError) [github.com] Hot  vs Cold observables - From the RxJs wiki [github.com] uses js instead of java, but concepts are the same and this is the best explanation I’ve found so far. RxJava wiki on Backpressure [github.com]: Ring buffer size: System.setProperty("rx.ring-buffer.size", "128"); Issue with changing buffer ring size [github.com] It’s 16 on Android, down from 1024 originally. :P So it’s actually 64x smaller. Awesome picks: Dan Lew: Simple Made Easy (talk by Rich Hickey creator of Clojure) [infohq] Victor by Trello (SVG assets) [github.com] Donn: Realm Object Database [realm.io] Kaushik: Therapeutic Refactoring (talk by Katrina Owen) [youtube.com] Contact Dan Lew @danlew42 [twitter.com] Dan Lew’s blog [danlew.net] Donn Felker @donnfelker [twitter.com] donnfelker.com Kaushik Gopal @kaushikgopal [twitter.com] kaush.co