No Need for a Violinist: Ditching RxJava in Favor of Kotlin Coroutines
summary
Compares using RxJava 2 versus Kotlin coroutines for background/concurrency work in Kotlin projects, evaluating pros and cons of each technology and when coroutines are preferable or when Rx is necessary. Covers testing strategies for code written with both approaches and how they can interoperate or coexist.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:06RxJava problems on Android
- 6:19Switching to Kotlin Coroutines
- 10:12Working with suspend functions
- 14:26Cancellation and error handling
- 18:41Simplifying interfaces
- 22:13Intermediate summary
- 24:44Handling event streams
- 26:29Channels and Broadcast
- 30:27RxJava compatibility
- 32:54Resources
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