robospice vs RxAndroid

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robospice		RxAndroid
	Project
1	Mentions	4
3,011	Stars	19,865
-	Growth	0.1%
0.0	Activity	4.7
over 6 years ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
Java	Language	Java
-	License	Apache License 2.0

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robospice

Posts with mentions or reviews of robospice. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-12-30.

A foss "PDF scanner", alternatives to CamScanner
12 projects | /r/fossdroid | 30 Dec 2020

Project: Robospice (RoboSpice is a modular android library that makes writing asynchronous network requests easy !) Copyright (C) 2012 Octo Technology License (Apache License Version 2.0) https://github.com/stephanenicolas/robospice/blob/release/LICENSE.txt

RxAndroid

Posts with mentions or reviews of RxAndroid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-24.

How to do threading in Android.
2 projects | /r/androiddev | 24 Mar 2023

Since you mentioned java, there is RxJava and RxAndroid. Google general recommendation now is to use kotlin coroutines if you're considering writing your app with that.
Best libraries for Android Developers
19 projects | dev.to | 15 Jul 2022

RxAndroid
RxAndroid - can someone give me some links for good articles and github projects?
1 project | /r/androiddev | 2 Oct 2021

Well, as mentioned in the RxAndroid's Readme, it's only Android extensions to RxJava. It makes it easy to subscribe or observe on the main thread or a specific looper. So just focusing on learning RxJava should be enough. You can find many resources for that, here is a compilation: http://reactivex.io/tutorials.html
A foss "PDF scanner", alternatives to CamScanner
12 projects | /r/fossdroid | 30 Dec 2020

Project: RxAndroid (Android specific bindings for RxJava) Copyright (c) 2015 The RxAndroid authors. License (Apache License Version 2.0) https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxAndroid/blob/master/LICENSE

What are some alternatives?

When comparing robospice and RxAndroid you can also consider the following projects:

Retrofit - A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM

EventBus - Event bus for Android and Java that simplifies communication between Activities, Fragments, Threads, Services, etc. Less code, better quality.

Rx.Network - Observe Android's CONNECTIVITY_CHANGE broadcasts using RxJava.

RxJava - RxJava – Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.

node-android - Run Node.js on Android by rewrite Node.js in Java

otto

OkHttp - Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.

tinybus

Async Http Client - Asynchronous Http and WebSocket Client library for Java

Drekkar - An Android event bus for WebView and JS.

IceSoap - Easy, asynchronous, annotation-based SOAP for Android

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