RxJava basically extends the observer pattern to support iteration on the sequence of event/data and allows the forming of sequences at the same time as abstracting away the low-level details, like threading, synchronization, concurrency, and thread safety.
At the time of writing, the current version of RxJava-2.6 has a single dependency on Reactive Streams API and provides support for Java 6 and the later versions, along with Android 2.3+. Before going deep into RxJava, let's look at the basic building blocks of ReactiveX as follows:
- Observable: It is basically a data stream or in other words a source of data. It can emit the data just one time or periodically in a continuous manner, based on the configuration. Observable ...