Hiring RxJava2 developers? Then you should know!
How and where is RxJava2 used?
- Concurrency handling: Managing asynchronous tasks
- Error handling: Dealing with errors in a reactive way
- Chaining operations: Simplifying complex data streams
- Backpressure management: Regulating data flow efficiently
- Parallel computation: Improving performance with parallel processing
- Combining multiple sources: Merging data from different streams
- Timeout handling: Setting limits for data processing
- Caching results: Storing and reusing data for optimization
- Event bus implementation: Building event-driven architectures
- UI thread synchronization: Updating user interfaces seamlessly
Compare Junior, Middle, Senior, and Expert/Team Lead RxJava2 Developer roles
Seniority Name | Years of experience | Responsibilities and activities | Average salary (USD/year) |
---|---|---|---|
Junior | 0-2 years |
| 50,000 |
Middle | 3-5 years |
| 70,000 |
Senior | 6-8 years |
| 90,000 |
Expert/Team Lead | 9+ years |
| 120,000 |
Quick Facts about RxJava2.
- RxJava2 was created in 2016, born out of the innovative mind of Ben Christensen.
- Developers mainly use RxJava2 in projects related to Android app development.
- If you want to dive into RxJava2, you should have a good grasp of Java and reactive programming concepts.
- Coroutines in Kotlin is a popular alternative to RxJava2 for asynchronous programming.
- Funny enough, RxJava2 was inspired by the TV show “The Simpsons” character Professor Frink’s catchphrase “Glaven!”
TOP RxJava2 Related Technologies
- Retrofit2
(Square, 2013) - Dagger2
(Google, 2015) - Room Persistence Library
(Google, 2017) - Butter Knife
(Jake Wharton, 2013)
What are top RxJava2 instruments and tools?
- RxJava2Debug: Released by Akarnokd, this tool helps debug RxJava2 chains
- RxJava2Extensions: Released by JakeWharton, adds useful operators to RxJava2
- Stetho: Developed by Facebook in 2015, it provides debugging for RxJava2
- RxJava2Interop: Released by JakeWharton, it helps with interoperability between RxJava1 and RxJava2
- RxJava2Null: Created by Kaushik Gopal, helps deal with null values in RxJava2
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