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The benefits of this are as follows: No longer need to worry about how many types of `Peer`s exist. There is a single publicly accessible `PeerFinder` which aggregates the results of both the Bluetooth and Bonjour peer finders. In the future if another is added, the consumer of the peer finder (i.e. `StartSwapView`) doesn't need to be aware of this. Neither does the `SwapService` or `SwapActivity` or any other code. Never ask "Are we searching" but instead receive push notifications from the peer finder when it stops searching. Don't worry about receiving the same peer multiple times, it will automatically get filtered out. Less concern about doing things in `AsyncTasks` (and knowing what to do in an `AsyncTask`). The RXJava + RXAndroid libraries deal with this by allowing the client consuming the `PeerFinder` to specify which thread to perform the background task on, and also that the found `Peer`s should be emitted on the UI thread. In the future, can play with caching the results of a particular sequence of found peers. However right now using the `Observable.cache()` method means we can no longer unsubscribe from the peer finders and thus they run longer than they need to when we move on from the initial swap screen.
F-Droid Client
Client for F-Droid, the Free Software repository system for Android.
Building with Gradle
You will need the Android SDK and Gradle 2.9:
cd F-Droid
gradle assembleRelease
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- Why does F-Droid require "Unknown Sources" to install apps by default?
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