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Learning RxJava
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Learning RxJava

by Thomas Nield
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
8h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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RxJava 1.0 versus RxJava 2.0 - which one do I use?

As stated earlier, you are encouraged to use RxJava 2.0 if you can. It will continue to grow and receive new features, while RxJava 1.0 will be maintained for bug fixes. However, there are other considerations that may lead you to use RxJava 1.0.

If you inherit a project that is already using RxJava 1.0, you will likely continue using that until it becomes feasible to refactor to 2.0. You can also check out David Akarnokd's RxJava2Interop project (https://github.com/akarnokd/RxJava2Interop), which converts Rx types from RxJava 1.0 to RxJava 2.0 and vice versa. After you finish this book, you may consider using this library to leverage RxJava 2.0 even if you have the RxJava 1.0 legacy code. ...

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ISBN: 9781787120426