MVVM and

RxJava –
the perfect
mix
Droidcon Zagreb 2016
Florina Muntenescu

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What and who upday is

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When did we
decide to go
the RxJava &
MVVM way?

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 When did we decide to go the RxJava & MVVM way?

The old app

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 When did we decide to go the RxJava & MVVM way?

The old app

99 little bugs in the code.

99 little bugs in the code.
Take one down, patch it around.

127 little bugs in the code…

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 When did we decide to go the RxJava & MVVM way?

From the old to the new

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Crash course
in RxJava

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 Crash course in RxJava

Sum it up!

A1 0 1

A2 0 2

combineLatest( (A1,A2) => A1+A2)

C1 0 1 3

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What is MVVM
and how do
you apply it?

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 What is MVVM and how do you apply it?

Model-View-Presenter

IView IPresenter

1…1
View Presenter Model

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 What is MVVM and how do you apply it?

Model-View-ViewModel

1…*
View ViewModel DataModel

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What is MVVM and how do you apply it?

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 What is MVVM and how do you apply it?

Model-View-ViewModel

1…*
View ViewModel DataModel

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 What is MVVM and how do you apply it?

Testing

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 What is MVVM and how do you apply it?

Model-View-ViewModel

1…*
View ViewModel

1…*
View
View ViewModel DataModel

1…*
View ViewModel

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What is MVVM and how do you apply it?

Function Function
Spreadsheet 1…* Spreadsheet
View ViewModel
View ViewModel
Observable<String>
getFunctionText()

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What is MVVM and how do you apply it?

implements
IFunctionView

Function Function
Spreadsheet
View 1…1 Spreadsheet
Presenter
View
implements Presenter
IFunctionView
void
textUpdated(String)

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We made
mistakes but
we recovered!

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We made mistakes but we recovered!

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 We made mistakes but we recovered!

View

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 We made mistakes but we recovered!

ViewModel

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 We made mistakes but we recovered!

View

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 We made mistakes but we recovered!

What about Views that don’t have have lifecycle

events?

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 We made mistakes but we recovered!

Views and subscriptions

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 We made mistakes but we recovered!

Views and subscriptions

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RxJava – the
good and the
bad

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 RxJava – the good and the bad

RxJava vs Threads/AsyncTask/Event bus frameworks

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 RxJava – the good and the bad

Stream
composability FTW!

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 RxJava – the good and the bad

Split a string using a regular expression and append a

new line to each item in the resulting list

“RxJava – the good and the bad”

[“RxJava\n”, “the\n”, “good\n”, ”and\n”, “the\n”, ”bad\n”]

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 RxJava – the good and the bad

“RxJava“ “the“ “good“

…
map(line -> line.trim() + NEW_LINE)

“RxJava\n “ “the\n“ “good\n“

…

toList()

["RxJava\n“, “the\n“, “good\n“

...]

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 RxJava – the good and the bad

Split a string using a regular expression and append a

new line to each item in the resulting list

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 Exclusive to Samsung

Simple MVVM example: https://github.com/florina-muntenescu/DroidconMVVM

MVP vs MVVM example: https://github.com/florina-muntenescu/MVPvsMVVM

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