Reactive Android programming: learn to build Android application using RxJava

Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Building your First "Hello World" RxJava Application -- Creating the application -- Dependencies -- Core dependencies -- UI dependencies -- Very first user interface -- Adding RecyclerView -- Stock data Value objects -- Using Retrolambda -- Setup -- Usage -- Updating the existing code -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Understanding the Basics of RxJava -- Observables -- Hot and Cold Observables -- Disposables -- Schedulers -- Scheduling examples -- Investigating the flow of an Observable -- Flowable -- Dropping items -- Preserve latest item -- Buffering -- Completable, Single, and Maybe types -- Completable -- Single -- Maybe -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Learning to use Retrofit by Fetching Financial Data -- Setting up Retrofit -- Making HTTP requests -- Service interface -- Service factory -- Creating service -- Transforming request data -- Parsing JSON -- Querying data -- Transforming JSON value objects -- Unwrapping nested objects -- Unwrapping lists -- Converting objects -- Displaying data on the UI -- Regular updates -- Handling multiple records on the UI -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Integrating RxJava 1.0 with RxJava 2.0 -- Differences between the versions -- Dependencies and package name -- Functional interfaces -- Flowable -- Gluing different RxJava versions -- Setup -- Converting RxJava 1.0 Observables -- Converting to Flowables -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Writing Data to SQLite and Schedulers -- Schedulers -- Types of Schedulers -- Single -- Trampoline -- NewThread -- IO -- Computation -- Executor Scheduler -- Android Scheduler -- Using Schedulers -- subscribeOn -- observeOn -- Rules of thumb -- Achieving parallelism -- Structuring code for parallelism -- Writing data with StorIO.

Setting up StorIO -- Configuring StorIO -- Preparing constants -- Creating write resolvers -- Creating StorIOSQLite interface -- Data persistence flow -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Error Handling and SQLite Data Reading -- Exception handling in RxJava -- Using subscribe() -- Using onExceptionResumeNext() -- Using doOnError() -- Other error processing methods -- onErrorResumeNext() -- onErrorReturn -- onErrorReturnItem -- Showing errors in Android UI -- Empty State Screen -- Toast notification -- Centralized error logging -- Central handler -- Using RxJava plugins -- Reading SQLite data with StorIO -- Get resolver -- Reading cursor columns -- Converting data -- Creating the StockUpdate object -- Configuring Type Mapping -- Offline fallback for StockUpdate entries -- StorIO database query -- Creating the StorIO Observable -- The final onExceptionResumeNext() block -- Informing the user about the failure -- Missing delete resolver -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Integrating RxJava with Activity Lifecycle -- Android Activity Lifecycle -- Lifecycle review -- Fragment lifecycles -- Setting up an activity -- Things to know about onCreate() calls -- Resource leaks -- Memory leaks -- Memory leak example -- Leaking with Observables -- Lost background tasks example -- Paying special attention to onCreate() -- Cleaning up Subscriptions -- Using Disposable -- Using CompositeDisposable -- Utilizing the RxLifecycle library -- Setting up the library -- Binding to Activity Lifecycle -- Binding to Activity without subclassing -- Binding to the Fragment lifecycle -- Binding to views -- Updating the data fetching flow -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Writing Custom Observables -- How to create custom Observables -- Integrating with standard Java API -- Integrating with Emitter API -- Cleaning up -- Reading tweets for stocks reactively -- Setup -- Getting access to Twitter.

Custom Observable for Twitter -- Configuring Twitter -- Listening to status updates -- Emitting status updates into Observable -- Showing tweets in the UI -- Integrating Twitter status updates into the Flow -- Updating Value Objects -- StockUpdate adjustments -- StorIO adjustments -- Updating layouts -- Other improvements -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Advanced Observable Flows Explained -- Unwrapping Observables -- Transforming values with Map -- FlatMap Observables -- More FlatMap variations -- SwitchMap -- Passing values -- Tuples -- JavaTuples -- Custom classes -- Updated flow -- Combining items -- Zip -- Combine latest -- Concatenating streams -- Concat -- Merge -- Filtering -- Cleaning stock adapter -- Advanced filtering with distinct calls -- Example of GroupBy -- Filtering tweets -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Higher Level Abstractions -- Extracting code into methods -- Making conditions explicit -- Extracting consumers -- Using method references -- Extracting FlatMap -- Creating Factory Methods -- Financial stock quote Observable -- Tweet retrieval Observable -- Offline flow Observable -- Resulting flow -- Using Transformations -- Regular code extractions -- A Place where things start getting ugly -- Simplifying code with Transformations -- Extracting item persistence code -- Creating transformer classes -- File-based caching example -- Using Transformation to track execution time -- Using Transformation to debug Observables -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Basics of Subjects and Preference Persistence -- Subjects -- PublishSubject -- Multiple sources -- BehaviorSubject -- ReplaySubject -- AsyncSubject -- Using subjects in the application -- Using RxPreferences -- Setup -- Examples with RxPreferences -- Subjects for Settings -- Connecting subjects to Settings -- Creating UI for Settings -- Creating Settings activity -- Preferences XML -- Options menu.

Updating flow -- Settings for financial stock updates -- Settings for monitored tweets -- Entire merge block -- Fixes for duplicate entries -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Learning to Read Marble Diagrams -- Core elements of marble diagrams -- Elements of the diagram -- RxMarbles tool -- Examining operators -- Map -- FlatMap -- onExceptionResumeNext() -- GroupBy -- SubscribeOn and ObserveOn -- BehaviorSubject -- Summary -- Index.