How to stop and resume Observable.interval emiting ticks

Question

This will emit a tick every 5 seconds.

Observable.interval(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS, Schedulers.io())
            .subscribe(tick -> Log.d(TAG, "tick = &qu         


        

Answer 1

@AndroidEx , that's a wonderful answer. I did it a bit differently:

private fun disposeTask() {
    if (disposeable != null && !disposeable.isDisposed)
      disposeable.dispose()
  }

 private fun runTask() {
    disposeable = Observable.interval(0, 30, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
.flatMap {
        apiCall.runTaskFromServer()
.map{

when(it){
is ResponseClass.Success ->{
keepRunningsaidTasks()
}
is ResponseClass.Failure ->{
disposeTask() //this will stop the task in instance of a network failure.
}
}

}