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Jamie McDonald
June 18, 2015
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Async Android
NYC Android Developers Meetup, June 2015
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June 18, 2015
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Async Android Jamie McDonald
@Override public void onCreate() { super.onCreate(); Log.i(TAG, “Hi from the
main thread!”); } Main Thread title, date, 01 of 10
ANR title, date, 01 of 10
ANR title, date, 01 of 10 I/Choreographer﹕ Skipped 480 frames!
The application may be doing too much work on its main thread.
@UiThread public void updateUi(String title) { textView.setText(title); } @WorkerThread public
void showTitle() { textView.setText(SlowStuff.loadTitle()); } Tools title, date, 01 of 10
@UiThread public void updateUi(String title) { textView.setText(title); } @WorkerThread public
void showTitle() { textView.setText(SlowStuff.loadTitle()); } Tools title, date, 01 of 10
new Thread() { public void run() { final String result
= SlowStuff.blocking(); new Handler().post(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { updateUi(result); } }); } }.start(); Thread title, date, 01 of 10
class LooperThread extends Thread { private Handler handler; public void
run() { Looper.prepare(); handler = new Handler() { public void handleMessage(Message msg) { // Process messages here } }; Looper.loop(); } } Looper title, date, 01 of 10
IntentService title, date, 01 of 10 public class BackgroundService extends
IntentService { public BackgroundService() { super("BackgroundWork"); } @Override protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) { SlowStuff.blocking(); } } startService(new Intent(this, BackgroundService.class));
new AsyncTask<Void, Void, String>() { @Override protected String doInBackground(Void... params)
{ return SlowStuff.blocking(); } @Override protected void onPostExecute(String s) { updateUi(s); } }.execute(); AsyncTask title, date, 01 of 10
title, date, 01 of 10 “Painless threading” - The year
2009
new AsyncTask<Void, Void, Result>() { [...] @Override protected void onPostExecute(Result
result) { if (result.isSuccess()) { doNextAsyncStep(result.getValue()); } else { // ??? } } }.execute(); Callback Hell title, date, 01 of 10
Execution Order title, date, 01 of 10 SERIAL SERIAL THREAD
POOL
class DataLoader extends AsyncTaskLoader<String> { public BackgroundLoader(Context context) { super(context);
} @Override protected void onStartLoading() { forceLoad(); } @Override public String loadInBackground() { return SlowStuff.blocking(); } } Loader title, date, 01 of 10
getLoaderManager().initLoader(LOADER_ID, null, new LoaderManager.LoaderCallbacks<String>() { @Override public Loader<String> onCreateLoader(int id,
Bundle args) { return new DataLoader(MainActivity.this); } @Override public void onLoadFinished(Loader<String> loader, String text) { updateUi(text); } @Override public void onLoaderReset(Loader<String> loader) { loader.reset(); } }); Loader title, date, 01 of 10
Enter RxJava!
RxJava title, date, 01 of 10 “RxJava tries to be
very lightweight. [...] focused on just the Observable abstraction and related higher-order functions”
Observer Pattern title, date, 01 of 10
Streams title, date, 01 of 10
public Observable<String> observable() { return Observable.create((subscriber) -> { subscriber.onNext(blocking()); subscriber.onCompleted();
}); } Observable title, date, 01 of 10
class MySubscriber extends DefaultSubscriber<String> { @Override public void onNext(String text)
{ updateUi(text); } @Override public void onError(Throwable e) { displayError(e); } } Subscriber title, date, 01 of 10
SlowStuff.observable() .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io()) .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread()) .subscribe(new MySubscriber()); Schedulers title, date, 01 of
10
title, date, 01 of 10 Thread IntentService AsyncTask Loader RxJava
Main thread callbacks Configuration changes Error handling Composability Flexible scheduling
Operators title, date, 01 of 10 flatMap map filter doOnNext
onErrorResumeNext distinct cache zip retry ...
FlatMap title, date, 01 of 10
trackOps.loadWaveformUrl(urn) .flatMap(url -> imageOps.renderWaveform(url)) .onErrorResumeNext(imageOps.defaultWaveform()) [...] .subscribe(new WaveformSubscriber()); FlatMap title,
date, 01 of 10
OnErrorResumeNext title, date, 01 of 10
public final class EventQueue { static final Queue<StateTransition> PLAYBACK_STATE; static
final Queue<ProgressEvent> PLAYBACK_PROGRESS; static final Queue<PlayableEvent> PLAYABLE_CHANGED; [...] } Event Bus title, date, 01 of 10
None
title, date, 01 of 10
Subtitle title, date, 01 of 10 eventBus.queue(EventQueue.PLAYABLE_CHANGE) .filter(PlayableEvent.IS_TRACK_FILTER) .doOnNext(updateLikeCount) .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
Only listen to interesting events
Subtitle Respond to state without storing it title, date, 01
of 10 Observable.combineLatest( eventBus.queue(EventQueue.PLAY_QUEUE_TRACK), eventBus.queue(EventQueue.PLAYER_UI), combineStates) .doOnNext(setTrackHasBeenSeen)
Downsides title, date, 01 of 10 Debugging Testing long call
chains Learning curve Boilerplate Config changes Backpressure Where & when to use it?
*£#%@£$?? title, date, 01 of 10
More title, date, 01 of 10 RxAndroid Not RxAndroid Retrofit
Retrolambda
soundcloud.com/jobs Thank you, NYC!