rxjava: Can I use retry() but with delay?

Question

I am using rxjava in my Android app to handle network requests asynchronously. Now I would like to retry a failed network request only after a certain time has passed.

Answer 1

You can add a delay in the Observable returned in the retryWhen Operator

          /**
 * Here we can see how onErrorResumeNext works and emit an item in case that an error occur in the pipeline and an exception is propagated
 */
@Test
public void observableOnErrorResumeNext() {
    Subscription subscription = Observable.just(null)
                                          .map(Object::toString)
                                          .doOnError(failure -> System.out.println("Error:" + failure.getCause()))
                                          .retryWhen(errors -> errors.doOnNext(o -> count++)
                                                                     .flatMap(t -> count > 3 ? Observable.error(t) : Observable.just(null).delay(100, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)),
                                                     Schedulers.newThread())
                                          .onErrorResumeNext(t -> {
                                              System.out.println("Error after all retries:" + t.getCause());
                                              return Observable.just("I save the world for extinction!");
                                          })
                                          .subscribe(s -> System.out.println(s));
    new TestSubscriber((Observer) subscription).awaitTerminalEvent(500, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
}

You can see more examples here. https://github.com/politrons/reactive