rxjava-promises and Android support

[weefbellington]

Hello,

Is rxjava-promises supported on Android? I tried to install it as a Gradle dependency and I'm getting NoClassDefFoundErrors for all the classes from the jar -- no issues with other dependencies. Is it possibly compiled with Java 7, and if so would it be possible to compile an artifact using Java 6 instead for Android users?

Thanks,
David

[darylteo]

Can you provide more info on which class is not being found?

It is targetted at 1.7 yes, as it was never designed to work with Android (I'm not an Android developer).

Edit: ah, wait All the classes... can you provide me with potential steps to rectify this? Can you perhaps compile a local version in 1.6?

Regards,
Daryl

[weefbellington]

Daryl,

Thanks for the quick response!

Yes, I expect that compiling with Java 6 would fix the issue. I'll try doing it from the Gradle script later and see if it works.

If that's all that's needed to fix the problem, would you consider deploying an Android-compatible artifact in the future? Asynchronous background operations are very, very common on Android, and having a Promises implementation on top of rxjava would be very handy.

[darylteo]

If there is lots of demand, I would love to... is RxJava android compatible?

Let me know how that goes, thanks.

[darylteo]

Aha apparently they do actively support Java 6+.

https://github.com/Netflix/RxJava/blob/master/rxjava-core/build.gradle#L4

Anyway, please give it a shot first. If it does work, then I will set the source compatibility to 6+ as well, and push a new version (or just overwrite the old one... naughty)

[darylteo]

Just realised I may have had some things in that that have broken the build... working on fixing it now with the updated compatibility. Stayed tuned.

[darylteo]

I just uploaded 1.1.2-SNAPSHOT. Can you give this a shot? If it works I will make a formal release.

You need to add sonatype's snapshot repository to your maven repositories.

https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/

Regards,
Daryl

[weefbellington]

Daryl,

Thanks for the quick turnaround! I loaded the rxjava-promises-java:SNAPSHOT-1.1.2 artifact and I can confirm that it's working with my Android app. 🎉 🎈

Feel free to close this issue & thanks for supporting the Android community with your work.

Best,
David

[darylteo]

Okay I have to work now, I'll upload the full artifact to maven tonight.

Daryl

[darylteo]

Just pushed

https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/com/darylteo/rxjava-promises-java/

It should take a few hours to sync with Central. You can use it fully then.

Please continue to let me know if there are any issues =)

Regards,
Daryl