In the last post, we read about Bound services and how their lifecycle depends on the component which binds to them. There is a second kind of service, called started services, whose lifecycle is independent of any component. They may continue to run in the background for an indefinite time. …

Services is the Android component which is used to perform long-running background tasks. There are other Android components which run in the background too, like Broadcast receiver and JobScheduler, but they are not used for long running tasks. Matter of fact, a broadcast receiver, though runs in the background, need…

Singleton pattern is definitely the easiest pattern of all the design patterns but trust me, many of us are doing wrong. So let’s find out more about this pattern. We all know the motivation of using Singleton pattern. It’s a pattern which allows us to have only a single instance…

If you’ve worked with RxJava/RxKotlin, you might be familiar with three methods of a subscriber. onNext , onError and onComplete. In a reactive stream, elements are consumed by onNext first, and onComplete is called when the stream ends. If you encounter any error in onNext, the complete observable chain is…

Schedulers are one of the main components in RxJava. They are responsible for performing operations of Observable on different threads. They help to offload the time-consuming onto different threads. In this post we will learn the types of schedulers and when to use the different types. IO — This is…