programming - Chris Jenkins

Chris Jenkins

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RxJava - SyncOnSubscribe and fromCallable

RxJava is impressive, but it's a fairly overwhelming framework so I want to share some of the lesser known parts. Note: Code examples will be in Kotlin. Backpressure Simply; "backpressure" is when your Observable emits items quicker than a downstream Observer/Operator can consume them. For

GSON Empty Json Object to null.

Sometimes that API you are given just doesn't conform to what you are expecting. I have had to consume a JSON API recently where the JSON returned "{}" instead of null or not at all. For example, this is OK: { "name": "Chris", "

Gradle & Robolectric & Jacoco & Dagger

As a few have, I stumbled into this $$ jacoco bug. To be fair this is not so much a GradlePlugin bug as more Jacoco/Dagger. Semantics aside, we wanted to know about our unit test coverage with Robolectric. Implimentations vary, I based alot of my work off of this template.