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
2. Kotlin Asynchronous Flow, A beginner guide for RxJava people
3. Agenda 1. Why I mention RxJava here? (Target audiences) 2. Revisit coroutine concepts. 3. Idea 4. Key takeaways
4. Why I mention RxJava here? - The perfect duos. Loader pattern? IntentService? Create threads? Java Future?
5. Why I mention RxJava here? 2. The sweet abusive usage.
6. Why I mention RxJava here? 3. The demand for it!
7. Revisit coroutine concepts Suspending functions CoroutineBuilders (async, launch, runBlocking) CoroutineScopes (Activity, Application, viewModel, etc) CoroutineDispatchers (Main, IO, Defaut, Unconfined) Coroutine
8. Revisit coroutine concepts (cont) Photo courtesy from raywenderlich Timeline MainThread function1() function2() function3() Blocking model
9. Idea RxJava2 and Kotlin Flow are “Cold stream”
10. Idea (cont)
11. Key takeaways
12. Thank you