Rxandroid What's the difference between SubscribeOn and ObserveOn

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Rathore picture Rathore · Jul 8, 2017 · Viewed 14.8k times · Source

I am just learning Rx-java and Rxandroid2 and I am just confused what is the major difference between in SubscribeOn and ObserveOn.

Answer

Petr Kubáč picture Petr Kubáč · Jul 8, 2017

SubscribeOn specify the Scheduler on which an Observable will operate. ObserveOn specify the Scheduler on which an observer will observe this Observable.

So basically SubscribeOn is mostly subscribed (executed) on a background thread ( you do not want to block the UI thread while waiting for the observable) and also in ObserveOn you want to observe the result on a main thread...

If you are familiar with AsyncTask then SubscribeOn is similar to doInBackground method and ObserveOn to onPostExecute...

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