Building Reactive Applications with RxJava
Course Description
This hands-on course teaches you RxJava the powerful reactive programming library for Java and Android so you can elegantly handle asynchronous data streams, user interactions, network calls, and real-time events without callback hell or complex threading logic.
Why Learn RxJava?
Reactive programming is essential for modern apps that must stay responsive under load, manage concurrent operations, and react to live data (like chat messages, sensor updates, or stock prices). RxJava is widely used in Android development, backend services, and enterprise systems at companies like Netflix, Uber, and LinkedIn. Mastering it makes your code more maintainable, testable, and scalable.
What You’ll Learn:
- Understand core reactive concepts: Observables, Observers, Schedulers, and Operators
- Transform, filter, combine, and error-handle data streams using powerful operators (map, flatMap, filter, merge, zip, retry, etc.)
- Manage concurrency with Schedulers (IO, computation, main thread)
- Avoid memory leaks and backpressure issues in long-running streams
- Integrate RxJava with Retrofit for clean API calls and Room for database operations
- Build real-world features: search-as-you-type, debounced input, live data feeds, and retry mechanisms
- Apply reactive patterns in Android apps (lifecycle-aware subscriptions with RxAndroid)
- Test reactive code reliably with TestObserver and virtual time
- Compare RxJava with alternatives like Kotlin Coroutines and Project Reactor
- Follow best practices for clean, readable, and debuggable reactive code
Why Choose This Course?
You’ll learn by building a weather app with live search, a chat UI with message streams, and a data-sync service all while avoiding common pitfalls like unbounded streams or incorrect thread usage. Includes downloadable code templates, operator cheat sheets, and performance tips from production experience.
By the end, you’ll confidently replace complex async logic with elegant, composable reactive pipelines.
Enroll now and transform how you handle asynchronous data in Java and Android.
Course Curriculum
Thabo Mokoena
Offensive Security Specialist | Former Cybersecurity Lead at Standard Bank & Deloitte Africa | CEH, OSCP, CISSPThabo “Cipher” Mokoena isn’t just a cybersecurity expert he’s a digital sentinel who’s spent the last 15 years defending Africa’s most critical financial, telecom, and government infrastructure from sophisticated cyber threats.