RxJava delay for each item of list emitted

Question

I\'m struggling to implement something I assumed would be fairly simple in Rx.

I have a list of items, and I want to have each item emitted with a delay.

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Answer 1

You can add a delay between emitted items by using flatMap, maxConcurrent and delay()

Here is an example - emit 0..4 with delay

@Test
fun testEmitWithDelays() {
    val DELAY = 500L
    val COUNT = 5

    val latch = CountDownLatch(1)
    val startMoment = System.currentTimeMillis()
    var endMoment : Long = 0

    Observable
        .range(0, COUNT)
        .flatMap( { Observable.just(it).delay(DELAY, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS) }, 1) // maxConcurrent = 1
        .subscribe(
                { println("... value: $it, ${System.currentTimeMillis() - startMoment}") },
                {},
                {
                    endMoment = System.currentTimeMillis()
                    latch.countDown()
                })

    latch.await()

    assertTrue { endMoment - startMoment >= DELAY * COUNT }
}

... value: 0, 540
... value: 1, 1042
... value: 2, 1544
... value: 3, 2045
... value: 4, 2547