As Retrofit docs represent Call enqueue method in Retrofit is :
Asynchronously send the request and notify callback of its response or if an error occurred talking to the server, creating the request, or processing the response.
and Rxjava according to this tutorial is :
RxJava and RxAndroid libraries allow us to easily do async processing using principles of functional reactive programming
it seems these two have the same approach. What is advantages and disadvantages of each? Which one is better to use?
I won't say they have the same approach.
Retrofit
is specifically designed for API calls which Synchronously or Asynchronously calls an API for you (you can specify that). whileRxJava
&RxAndroid
can do the similar for you (i.e doing some tasks in sync or async), it is not limited to API call only. You can do many wonders withRxJava/Android
As you have quoted that
RxJava
&RxAndroid
does that with principles of Functional Reactive Programming(FRP). FRP has nothing to do withRetrofit
& hence they are not same & can't be compared.You can also use
RxJava/Android
with Retrofit for calling API in FRP Pattern.Please read this so you can get more idea about FRP:
You should read this as well for understanding what operators does
RxJava
gives & how you could use themIn the end, if by
Asynchronous
you only meant API calls, thenRetrofit
is better doing that as it's specially designed for that and if byAsynchronous
you meant some other tasks like resource intensive or so, then obviouslyRxJava/Android
will be better if you want async task in FRP pattern likeObserver
orObservable
.