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Writing clean code can be challenging: Libraries, frameworks, and APIs are temporary and become obsolete quickly. But mathematical concepts and paradigms are lasting; they require years of academic research and may even outlast us.

This isn’t a tutorial to show you how to do X with Library Y. Instead, we focus on the enduring principles behind functional and reactive programming so you can build future-proof and reliable Android architecture, and scale and adapt to changes without compromising efficiency.

This article lays the foundations, and in Part 2, we will dive into an implementation of functional reactive programming (FRP), which combines both functional and reactive programming.

This article is written with Android developers in mind, but the concepts are relevant and beneficial to any developer with experience in general programming languages.

Functional Programming 101

Functional programming (FP) is a pattern in which you build your program as a composition of functions,

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