GDG Vietnam Webinar #1 - Kotlin Asynchronous Flow, A beginner guide for RxJava people

Starting with Kotlin Flow Api from the background of RxJava2 context, this talk will help you have a simple comparison of concepts and the ground technical pillars that share between the 2 options.

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1. About speaker
   Hello! I’m Toan
   Vice President, Mobile @Lazada (Looking for Android folks to join me!)
   https://medium.com/@toantran
   toan_mobi toantran-ea
   

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2. Kotlin Asynchronous Flow, A beginner guide for RxJava
   people
   

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3. Agenda
   1. Why I mention RxJava here? (Target audiences)
   2. Revisit coroutine concepts.
   3. Idea
   4. Key takeaways
   

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4. Why I mention RxJava here?
   - The perfect duos.
   Loader pattern?
   IntentService? Create threads?
   Java Future?
   

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5. Why I mention RxJava here?
   2. The sweet abusive usage.
   

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6. Why I mention RxJava here?
   3. The demand for it!
   

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7. Revisit coroutine concepts
   Suspending
   functions
   CoroutineBuilders
   (async, launch,
   runBlocking)
   CoroutineScopes
   (Activity, Application,
   viewModel, etc)
   CoroutineDispatchers
   (Main, IO, Defaut,
   Unconfined)
   Coroutine
   

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8. Revisit coroutine concepts (cont)
   Photo courtesy from raywenderlich
   Timeline MainThread
   function1() function2() function3()
   Blocking model
   

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9. Idea
   RxJava2 and Kotlin Flow are “Cold stream”
   

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10. Idea (cont)
    

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11. Key takeaways
    

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12. Thank you
    

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