Episode

Coroutines and RxJava with Josh Keen

· 35 mins

We sit down to talk to Josh about coroutines, its usage in Android, the differences with RxJava, and whether we can combine both technologies.

About Josh Keen

Josh Keen is (1) a software engineer and instructor at Big Nerd Ranch. A graduate of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, he discovered software as a medium for creating interactive art and has been hooked ever since. When not in front of a computer, you can find him running, practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu, or creating patches for his modular synthesizer.

(1) Josh Keen has since moved on from Big Nerd Ranch but was an instructor there at the time of recording.

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