Summary
In this chapter, we went through the reactive principles and the reasons we should learn and use them. It is not so hard to build a reactive application; it just requires structuring the program in little declarative steps. With RxJava, this can be accomplished by building multiple asynchronous streams connected the right way, transforming the data all the way through its consumer.
The two examples presented in this chapter may look a bit complex and confusing at first glance, but in reality, they are pretty simple. There are a lot of new things in them, but everything will be explained in detail in the following chapters.
If you want to read more about reactive programming, take a look at Reactive Programming in the Netflix API with RxJava ...
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