RxJava — Flowables — What, when and how to use it?

Aanand Shekhar Roy
AndroidPub
4 min readJan 27, 2018

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To understand Flowables, we need to understand Observables first. Observables are those entities which we observe for any event. Observables are used when we have relatively few items over the time and there is no risk of overflooding consumers. If there is a possibility that the consumer can be overflooded, then we use Flowable. One example could be getting a huge amount of data from a sensor. They…

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Aanand Shekhar Roy
AndroidPub

Senior Software Engineer @Joist, Author of Kotlin Programming Cookbook.