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

(Kotlin) I little bit improved code with exponential backoff and applied defense emitting of Observable.range():

    fun testOnRetryWithDelayExponentialBackoff() {
    val interval = 1
    val maxCount = 3
    val ai = AtomicInteger(1);
    val source = Observable.create { emitter ->
        val attempt = ai.getAndIncrement()
        println("Subscribe ${attempt}")
        if (attempt >= maxCount) {
            emitter.onNext(Unit)
            emitter.onComplete()
        }
        emitter.onError(RuntimeException("Test $attempt"))
    }

    // Below implementation of "retryWhen" function, remove all "println()" for real code.
    val sourceWithRetry: Observable = source.retryWhen { throwableRx ->
        throwableRx.doOnNext({ println("Error: $it") })
                .zipWith(Observable.range(1, maxCount)
                        .concatMap { Observable.just(it).delay(0, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS) },
                        BiFunction { t1: Throwable, t2: Int -> t1 to t2 }
                )
                .flatMap { pair ->
                    if (pair.second >= maxCount) {
                        Observable.error(pair.first)
                    } else {
                        val delay = interval * 2F.pow(pair.second)
                        println("retry delay: $delay")
                        Observable.timer(delay.toLong(), TimeUnit.SECONDS)
                    }
                }
    }

    //Code to print the result in terminal.
    sourceWithRetry
            .doOnComplete { println("Complete") }
            .doOnError({ println("Final Error: $it") })
            .blockingForEach { println("$it") }
}