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Today, I’ve released next version of my most popular open-source project - ReactiveNetwork. I’ve released version 0.12.4 for RxJava1.x and version 1.0.0 for RxJava2.x. Please note, RxJava1.x is no longer officially supported and I’m going to follow the same approach in my RxJava-based projects. It’s not the first release of this project, but I’m breaking the API and removing existing methods, so I decided to stick to proper versioning standard. I didn’t always do it properly in the past, but it’s never too late. ...

Yesterday, I gave a presentation about connectivity in the Android apps during the DroidCon Poland 2017 Conference in Kraków. Below, you can see slides from this presentation. View slides on SpeakerDeck There’s also tweet related to this presentation from DroidCon Kraków: Piotr Wittchen tells us about how we can we keep the track of network 🌎 or Internet connectivity changes in our app 📱🆘🙂 pic.twitter.com/7YGGzNJeb2 — droidcon Kraków (@droidconkr) December 2, 2017 I hope, you enjoyed it. Any kind of feedback is welcome (in the comments below this article or via e-mail). Don’t forget to check ReactiveNetwork library I mentioned during the presentation. ...

I’m continuing Rxfication of the Android. Recently I released brand new library called ReactiveAirplaneMode. As you may guess, it allows listening Airplane mode on Android device with RxJava observables. A usual I’ve hidden all implementation details, BroadcastReceivers and rest of the Android related stuff behind RxJava abstraction layer, so API is really simple. Just take a look on that: ReactiveAirplaneMode.create() .observe(context) .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io()) .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread()) .subscribe(isOn -> textView.setText(String.format("Airplane mode on: %s", isOn.toString()))); In the code above subscriber will be notified only when airplane mode changes. If you want to read airplane mode and then listen to it, you can use the following method: ...

In the latest release of ReactiveNetwork library, I focused on Walled Garden AKA Great Firewall support during checking Internet connectivity. There are countries with limited Internet access like China and in such cases, pinging commonly known host like www.google.com may have different results than in other countries because it may be blocked. We may get false positive results because users will generally have an access to the Internet, but they don’t have access only to several websites. To solve that problem, I created WalledGardenInternetObservingStrategy and made it default strategy for checking Internet connectivity inside the library. Of course, you can still use SocketInternetObservingStrategy if you want to. Detailed release notes are as follows: RxJava1.x ...

I’ve recently released ReactiveNetwork library v. 0.10.0 for RxJava1.x and RxJava2.x. ReactiveNetwork is an Android library listening network connection state and Internet connectivity with RxJava Observables, which I’m developing for approximately 2 years now. In this version, I’ve done a few bug fixes and added new features for RxJava2.x version. Below, you can find the release notes: Release for RxJava1.x bumped RxJava1 version to 1.3.0 bumped test dependencies created Code of Conduct updated Kotlin version in sample apps added retrolambda to the sample Java app - issue #163 fixed behavior of network observing in disconnected state - issue #159 Release for RxJava2.x ...